At the start of the Dharma Yuddha (righteous war) between Pandavas and Kauravas, Arjuna is preoccupied by a moral dilemma and despair about the violence and death the war will cause in the battle against his kin. The Gita is set in a narrative framework of a dialogue between Pandava prince Arjuna and his guide and charioteer Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. It is considered to be one of the holy scriptures for Hinduism.
The Shrimad Bhagavad Gita ( / ˌ b ʌ ɡ ə v ə d ˈ ɡ iː t ɑː/ Sanskrit: श्रीमद्भगवद्गीता, romanized: śrīmadbhagavadgītā, lit.'The Song by God' ), often referred to as the Gita ( IAST: gītā), is a 700- verse Hindu scripture that is part of the epic Mahabharata (chapters 23–40 of book 6 of the Mahabharata called the Bhishma Parva), dated to the second half of the first millennium BCE and is typical of the Hindu synthesis.