is Arjuna's failure of nerve before the war, in which he will have to kill his Kaurava relatives, resulting in K a's expounding of the Bhagavad-g t to encourage him to fight. In truth, the Mah bh rata tells us, Arjuna and K a are incarnations of Nara and N r yana; it is as though Arjuna's friendship with (devotion to) K