<Li> Sanjaya, counsellor of the Kuru king Dhritarashtra </Li> <Li> Dhritarashtra, Kuru king . </Li> <P> Bhagavad Gita comprises 18 chapters (section 25 to 42) in the Bhishma Parva of the epic Mahabharata and consists of 700 verses . Because of differences in recensions, the verses of the Gita may be numbered in the full text of the Mahabharata as chapters 6.25--42 or as chapters 6.23--40 . According to the recension of the Gita commented on by Adi Shankara, a prominent philosopher of the Vedanta school, the number of verses is 700, but there is evidence to show that old manuscripts had 745 verses . The verses themselves, composed with similes and metaphors, are poetic in nature . The verses mostly employ the range and style of the Sanskrit Anustubh metre (chhandas), and in a few expressive verses the Tristubh metre is used . </P> <P> The Sanskrit editions of the Gita name each chapter as a particular form of yoga . However, these chapter titles do not appear in the Sanskrit text of the Mahabharata . Swami Chidbhavananda explains that each of the eighteen chapters is designated as a separate yoga because each chapter, like yoga, "trains the body and the mind". He labels the first chapter "Arjuna Vishada Yogam" or the "Yoga of Arjuna's Dejection". Sir Edwin Arnold translates this chapter as "The Distress of Arjuna" </P>

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