Sanjaya

THE MOST-READ TEXT IN THE TRADITION IS THIS MAN TALKING. The Bhagavad Gita is framed throughout as his report — the verses that open and close it are his, and every 'Krishna said' in it is inside his speech — and the corpus held Krishna, Arjuna, the chariot, the field and the blind king, and not the narrator. A registry of figures that holds a conversation without its reporter is holding the conversation at second hand without saying so.

Domains

• clairvoyance
• counsel and narration

Relations

• advisor of: DhritarashtraNon-symmetric, so nothing is written onto the pre-existing Dhritarashtra record.Reference treatment: Sanjaya is the advisor and charioteer of the blind king Dhritarashtra. (secondary)
• narrated the words of: KrishnaNon-symmetric, and the second author-and-subject relation this programme has recorded, after Valmiki and Rama in lane 16. The corpus holds Krishna and Arjuna and held nobody who was listening.Reference treatment: the entire Bhagavad Gita is Sanjaya's narration to Dhritarashtra of what Krishna was saying to Arjuna. (secondary)

Sources

• Sanjaya is Dhritarashtra's adviser and charioteer, given divine sight to follow the war, and the narrator whose report to the blind king constitutes the Bhagavad Gita.: Reference treatments of Sanjaya and of the Bhagavad Gita. (secondary)