Pātra No. 2
Duryodhana's first words are to his teacher.
“…arrayed by the son of Drupada, your intelligent disciple.”
Duryodhana’s first words in the Gītā are to his teacher, Droṇa. He points at the other army and reminds Droṇa that it was arranged by Drupada’s son, Droṇa’s own student. In the Mahābhārata, that student is the one who kills him.
Arjuna asked his. Samvāda answers yours with the Gītā's own verses.
Samvāda is software, an AI companion tuned to the Bhagavad Gītā. It is not a person. It answers from the verse and shows you which one, and it never pretends to be Kṛṣṇa.
पश्यैतां पाण्डुपुत्राणामाचार्य महतीं चमूम्।
व्यूढां द्रुपदपुत्रेण तव शिष्येण धीमता।।
paśyaitāṁ pāṇḍu-putrāṇām ācārya mahatīṁ camūm vyūḍhāṁ drupada-putreṇa tava śiṣyeṇa dhīmatā
Behold, O teacher, this mighty army of the Pandavas, arrayed by the son of Drupada, your intelligent disciple.
1.3 is verse 3 of 700, and verse 3 of 47 in chapter 1.
Drupada, in any form, appears in 3 verses of the 700: 1.3, 1.4 and 1.18.
Ācārya (teacher), in any form, appears in 5 verses of the 700, first at 1.2 and last at 13.7.
Counted by Vāṇi on the 700-verse text at getvani.app/gita.
1.3 is the first thing Duryodhana says in the Gītā. After 1.2 tells us that he approached his teacher Droṇa, he asks Droṇa to look at the great Pāṇḍava army, arrayed by the son of Drupada, whom he calls Droṇa's intelligent disciple. The verse is a pointed remark, and it is aimed at the teacher: the one who arranged the opposing army is his own former student. 1.4 goes on to name the heroes in that army, great bowmen equal to Bhīma and Arjuna in battle, with Yuyudhāna, Virāṭa and Drupada. So the first speech in the book is a king speaking to his teacher about another of that teacher's students. Within the Gītā, the verse shows a leader choosing his words for the man he is addressing. Read it in chapter 1.