Acyutānanda: Bhagavad-gītā's Battle of Kurukṣetra fought, in which month?
Prabhupāda: That I do not know. Why?
Acyutānanda: Because they have a Gītā day, I think, in November, where they claim that they have found the day... September?
Yaśodānandana: December, beginning of December.
Acyutānanda: So that and the eighteen days' war, and then the Uttarāyaṇa begins in the middle of January. So I was thinking that Bhīṣma was lying on the battlefield for almost a month or more.
Prabhupāda: Eh?
Acyutānanda: That Bhīṣma was waiting, lying on the battlefield for about thirty or forty days. (break)
Prabhupāda: ...was to die when he liked. That was his special privilege.
Acyutānanda: What?
Prabhupāda: He would die when he liked. That was the benediction upon him. And Gandhi will say dharma-kṣetra means this body.