BHAGVADGEETA STANZA 1 , CHAPTER 1.

भगवद्गीता  :   अध्याय 1  

धर्मक्षेत्रे कुरुक्षेत्रे  समवेता युयुत्सवः  |
मामकाः पाण्डवाश्चैव किमकुर्वत संजय || 1||

Word by word translation :

1 धर्मक्षेत्रे :  (Dharmakshtreh ) In the field known as religious one 

2 कुरुक्षेत्रेः   (Kurukshetreh )  In the field known as of Kuru"s

3 समवेताः ( samvetah ) assembled 

4 युयुत्सवः (yuyutsavah )  Charged with war fever

5 मामकाः  ( mamkah )  my own ( family warriors )

6 पाण्डवाश्चैव ( पाण्डवाः च एव ) ( Pandvashaiv ) also of Pandu family warriors

7 किम् (kim ) : What 

8 अकुर्वत (akurvat ) : did they do 

9 संजय (sanjay ) : O Samjay (tell me)

In sentence form :   

Dhrutarashtra inquired with Sanjay as to what did the warriors of my family and thta of Pandu's family did when they were assembled in the battlefield known a Dharmakshtra as well as Kurukshtra.

Commentary :

1  Kurukshetra was originally a agricultural field being tilled by King KURU after whom his family came to be known as Kauravas. The God Indra conferred a boon upon him after long penance that anybody dying in the battlefield will go to heaven. Thus it started to be referred as Dharnakshetra too. Eventually it was abandoned as agricultural field and came to be used as battlefield believing that the death will take the warrior yo heaven. It is believed that the sage Parshuram got rid of Kshatriya's clan (vansh) twenty one times in the same very field. It continued as popular battlefield till modern times ( now known as Panipat ).

2  Dhrutrashtra the successor king of Hasinapur was born blind. The sage Vyasa offered him special vision so as to "See" for himself the war proceedings from his throne. He instinctively knew about eventual end of his family in war and refused the vision and asked it be given to the son of a slave Sanjay .

3 The Geeta opens with 1st and only stanza put in the mouth of Dhrutrashtra . There after Sanjay, Atjun and :Lord Krishna take over. 

4  All though it ts supposed to be war reporting it deals with philosophy. The proding and pushing do come occasionally from Lord Krishna like " Come get up and fight " occasionally but more as exception  than rule.