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Devendra Yashwant: Divine Vision To Sanjaya - An Illusion
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chapters consisting more than 300 slokas gives geographical details, The 13th Chapter is titled "Sanjaya kā yuddhabhūmi se laut kar Dhrtarastra ko Bhīṣma ki mṛtyu kā Samācara sunānā". This title in itself is clear that Sanjay came from the battlefield, Sanjay reported :--
hato Bhisma Santanavo bharatānāṁ pitāmaḥ.
Almost all the Mahabharata composers and writers have narrated the death of Bhisma after the conclusion of the war.
Let us see the Ist sloka of Bhagavadgītā which reads :--
"dharmakṣetre kurukṣetre samaveta yuyutsvaḥ māmakā pāṇḍavāścaiva kim akurvata Sañjaya."
Here Dhṛtarāṣṭra is not asking what is going on in the battlefield, but what his sons and the sons of Pāṇḍu did.
Veda Vyasa was a grammarian of repute and the mistake of past and present tense is unexpectable from him. Narration of the latter events also prove the happenings of the past and not present. Let us have a peep on the narrations of Sanjay after gaining so called divine vision. 43rd chapter of Bhismaparva describes :--
1) Yuyutsu went to the army of Pandavas.
2) Yuyutsu, criticizing Duryodhana and having decided to fight on the side of Pandavas started serving them.
3) Several important warriors blew their conches.
In the Ist sloka of 44th chapter of Bhismaparva Dhratrāṣṭra asks Sanjay, let me know that after the positioning of the armies who made the first attack, Kauravas-or-Pandvas?
"evam vyuḍheṣvanīkeṣu māmakeşvitreşu ca,
ke pūrvaṁ prāharṁstatra kuravaḥ pāndva nu kim”
