This document provides background context for the Bhagavad Gita by summarizing the key events in the Mahabharata epic and the lineages of the warring Kuru and Pandava families. It notes that the Bhagavad Gita appears as an episode just before the Battle of Kurukshetra, with Lord Krishna acting as Arjuna's charioteer and counselor. The document also criticizes other translations that diminish Krishna's central role and presents this translation as aiming to properly establish Krishna as the supreme goal and speaker of the Gita's message.