DEAR READERS,
WE ALL HAVE WITNESSED THE STORY OF MAHABHARATA AND WE LOVE OR LIKE ONE OF THE CHARACTERS IN THE EPIC. BE IT "ARJUNA", "KRISHNA", "BHISHMA" OR "ABHIMANYU". ALL HAVE PLAYED THEIR PART EITHER IN THE POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE WAY. BUT, THEIR WAS ONE SUCH CHARACTER WHO HUNG BETWEEN THESE TWO CHARACTERISTICS. HE IS THE MOST UNDER-RATED CHARACTER OF THE EPIC---- "KARNA". PEOPLE SEE HIM WITH A NEGATIVE SITE. BUT WAS HE TRULY A VILLAIN OR WAS HE AN UNSUNG HERO OF MAHABHARATA ???? WHAT WE REALLY KNOW ABOUT HIM???
HIS LIFE WOULD HAVE BEEN ON THE PERFECT TRACK IF HE WOULD HAVE KNOWN THAT HE IS THE SON OF KUNTI AND LORD SURYA BECAUSE HE COULD HAVE BEEN A PERFECT MEDIATOR BETWEEN THE PANDAVAS AND KAURAVAS. BUT, THE DESTINY HAD PLANNED SOMETHING ELSE FOR HIM. HER MOTHER KUNTI HAD GOT A BOON FROM RISHI DURVASHA BECAUSE OF HER SERVICE AND HOSPITALITY THAT SHE GAVE TO HIM. THE BOON WAS THAT SHE COULD CALL UPON ANY GOD TO BEGET A CHILD.
JUST TO GIVE IT A TRY WHETHER THE BOON IS REAL OR NOT, SHE INVOKED THE MANTRA AND CALLED UPON LORD SURYA WHO HANDED HIM OVER A CHILD WHO WAS BORN WITH "KAVACH"(ARMOUR) AND "KUNDAL"(EAR RING) . BUT, DUE TO THE FEAR OF THE SOCIETY AS SHE WAS AN UNMARRIED WOMAN SHE TOOK THE DECISION TO PLACE KARNA IN THE BASKET AND SET HIM FLOAT IN RIVER GANGA.
HE WAS THEN FOUND AT THE SHORE BY A CHARIOTEER . HE AND HIS WIFE RADHA RAISED HIM AND RENAMED KARNA AS VASUSENA.
AS HE GREW UP HE WAS CURSED BY LORD PARSHURAM AND BHOOMIDEVI ALONG WITH ANOTHER SAGE .
1. HE WAS A STUDENT OF PARSHURAMA . ONE FINE DAY WHEN PARSHURAMA WAS LYING ON HIS LAP , A BEE STUNG KARNA ON HIS THIGH BUT HE CONTROLLED THE PAIN WHICH MADE PARSHURAMA TO WAKE UP AND SENSE THAT HE WAS NOT A BRAHMIN BUT A KSHATRIYA. THIS WAS THE MOMENT WHEN HE CURSED HIM THAT HE WOULD FORGET ALL HIS TEACHINGS WHEN HE WOULD REQUIRE THE MOST.
2. ANOTHER CURSE WAS GIVEN TO HIM BY A SAGE WHEN KARNA ACCIDENTALLY KILLED A COW. HE WAS CURSED THAT HE WOULD BE KILLED WHEN HE WILL BE HELPLESS TO DEFEND HIMSELF.
3. THE FINAL CURSE CAME WHEN KARNA AFTER BECOMING THE KING OF ANGA WOULD BE TRAVELLING IN HIS CHARIOT AND HE SEES A CHILD LAMENTING AS THE SMALL KID DROPPED THE CAN OF GHEE. KARNA WOULD BE KIND ENOUGH TO GIVE HIM ANOTHER CAN BUT HE WANTED THE SAME GHEE THAT FELL ON SOIL. SO, KARNA WOULD SQUEEZE THE SOIL WITH HIS PALM TO FILL THE CAN WITH GHEE AND THAT HIS WHEN BHOOMIDEVI WOULD CURSE HIM THAT HE WAS THE ONE WHO TROUBLED HER BY HIS DEEDS. SO, AT THE RIGHT TIME SHE WOULD TRAP THE CHARIOT WHEEL IN THE SOIL.
THESE CURSES WORKED SIMULTANEOUSLY IN THE BATTLE OF MAHABHARATA DUE TO WHICH KARNA WAS KILLED BY ARJUNA.
KARNA BECAME A VILLIAN IN THE EYES OF PEOPLE BUT THAT HAPPENED WHEN HE WAS NOT GIVEN THE EQUAL AMOUNT OF RESPECT IN FRONT OF EVERYONE.
1.HE WAS ALSO ONE OF THE PERSON WHO CAME IN THE SWAYAMVARA OF PRINCESS DRAUPADI. BUT DRAUPADI MADE HIM TO WALK OUT OF THE COURT STATING THAT SHE WOULD NOT MARRY A "SUTAPUTRA" AS IT WILL BE AGAINST HER DIGNITY.
2. WHEN HE CAME TO CHALLENGE ARJUNA IN FRONT OF EVERYONE IN HASTINAPUR BUT ARJUNA DID THE SAME THING SAYING HE WOULD NOT FIGHT AGAINST A SUTAPUTRA. HE WOULD ONLY FIGHT WITH A KSHATRIYA. AT THIS MOMENT, DURYODHAN MADE HIM THE KING OF ANGA TO EQUALIZE THE STATURE TO THAT OF ARJUNA.
THESE OFFENSES LED HIM AGAINST THE PANDAVAS AND MADE HIM LOYAL TOWARDS DURYODHAN. AFTER THIS, HE NEVER SAW THE NEGATIVE SIDE OF DURYODHAN AND TRUSTED HIM BLINDFOLDEDLY WITHOUT WORRYING ABOUT THE CONSEQUENCES. HE WAS A VIRTUOUS WARRIOR WHO HAD THE EQUAL OR EVEN MORE POTENTIAL THAN ARJUNA. HE WAS VERY KIND AND FOLLOWED A PRINCIPLE THAT IN THE MORNING AFTER HIS PRAYERS , IF ANYBODY ASKS HIM ANYTHING HE WOULD GIVE THEM WITHOUT GIVING A SECOND THOUGHT TO IT. ALTHOUGH HE WAS TOLD BY KUNTI ABOUT HIS BIRTH BUT HE CHOSE TO BE ON THE SIDE OF DURYODHAN AS A LOYAL AND TRUE FRIEND.
THE ONLY MISTAKE HE DID IN HIS LIFETIME WAS BY SUPPORTING DURYODHAN IN THE 'VASTRAHARAN' OF DRAUPADI. AS HE WAS A PURE AND PIOUS KING , THIS WAS AGAINST HIS PERSONALITY AND HISTORY SAYS THAT THIS WAS THE POINT WHEN EVEN LORD KRISHNA LOST ALL HIS RESPECTS FOR KARNA. LORD KRISHNA MADE ALL SORTS OF PLANNING TO KILL KARNA, BE IT BY SENDING LORD INDRA AS A SAGE TO ASK FOR THE ARMOUR AND EAR RING HE WAS BORN WITH OR BY SENDING KUNTI TO NEUTRALIZE HIM. HE WAS WELL AWARE OF HIS POWER AS HE COULD DEFEAT ARJUNA AND WIN THE BATTLE.
IT IS SAID THAT ONCE IN HIS DREAM, HE ENVISIONED HIS GURU PARSHURAM AND ASKED TO TAKE BACK THE CURSE. BUT, PARSHURAM STATED THAT IF HE DID SO THEN DURYODHAN WOULD WIN AND CHAOS WOULD ENSUE. SO, IT IS BETTER THAT HE DIED IN THE HANDS OF ARJUNA FOR THE BETTERMENT OF THE WORLD.
HENCE, KARNA WAS AWARE OF HIS FATE AND HE BECAME QUITE SURE WHEN ALL THE CURSES CAME INTO WORK WHEN HE WAS FIGHTING AGAINST ARJUNA.
HISTORY WOULD HAVE BEEN SOMETHING DIFFERENT IF HE WOULD HAVE BEEN DEPICTED AS A POSITIVE CHARACTER AND MIGHT BE MAHABHARATA WAR WOULDN'T HAVE HAPPENED. I WOULD SAY THE FAULT MAINLY WAS OF KUNTI. IT IS BECAUSE SHE WOULD HAVE DISCLOSED THE SECRET RIGHT AT THE MOMENT WHEN HE SAW KARNA AT HASTINAPUR WHILE CHALLENGING ARJUNA.
BUT, ABOVE ALL DESTINY PLAYED HIS ROLE. RATHER THAN PUTTING THEIR EGO, FAME,CULTURE, SOCIETY AND TRADITIONS , IF THESE CHARACTERS WOULD HAVE PUT THEIR BLOOD RELATION FIRST, THE STORY OF MAHABHARATA WOULD HAVE BEEN DIFFERENT AND ABOVE ALL KARNA WOULD ALSO HAVE BEEN PORTRAYED IN THE HISTORY.....NOT AS A VILLIAN BUT AS A HERO !!!!
WE ALL HAVE WITNESSED THE STORY OF MAHABHARATA AND WE LOVE OR LIKE ONE OF THE CHARACTERS IN THE EPIC. BE IT "ARJUNA", "KRISHNA", "BHISHMA" OR "ABHIMANYU". ALL HAVE PLAYED THEIR PART EITHER IN THE POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE WAY. BUT, THEIR WAS ONE SUCH CHARACTER WHO HUNG BETWEEN THESE TWO CHARACTERISTICS. HE IS THE MOST UNDER-RATED CHARACTER OF THE EPIC---- "KARNA". PEOPLE SEE HIM WITH A NEGATIVE SITE. BUT WAS HE TRULY A VILLAIN OR WAS HE AN UNSUNG HERO OF MAHABHARATA ???? WHAT WE REALLY KNOW ABOUT HIM???
HIS LIFE WOULD HAVE BEEN ON THE PERFECT TRACK IF HE WOULD HAVE KNOWN THAT HE IS THE SON OF KUNTI AND LORD SURYA BECAUSE HE COULD HAVE BEEN A PERFECT MEDIATOR BETWEEN THE PANDAVAS AND KAURAVAS. BUT, THE DESTINY HAD PLANNED SOMETHING ELSE FOR HIM. HER MOTHER KUNTI HAD GOT A BOON FROM RISHI DURVASHA BECAUSE OF HER SERVICE AND HOSPITALITY THAT SHE GAVE TO HIM. THE BOON WAS THAT SHE COULD CALL UPON ANY GOD TO BEGET A CHILD.
JUST TO GIVE IT A TRY WHETHER THE BOON IS REAL OR NOT, SHE INVOKED THE MANTRA AND CALLED UPON LORD SURYA WHO HANDED HIM OVER A CHILD WHO WAS BORN WITH "KAVACH"(ARMOUR) AND "KUNDAL"(EAR RING) . BUT, DUE TO THE FEAR OF THE SOCIETY AS SHE WAS AN UNMARRIED WOMAN SHE TOOK THE DECISION TO PLACE KARNA IN THE BASKET AND SET HIM FLOAT IN RIVER GANGA.
HE WAS THEN FOUND AT THE SHORE BY A CHARIOTEER . HE AND HIS WIFE RADHA RAISED HIM AND RENAMED KARNA AS VASUSENA.
AS HE GREW UP HE WAS CURSED BY LORD PARSHURAM AND BHOOMIDEVI ALONG WITH ANOTHER SAGE .
1. HE WAS A STUDENT OF PARSHURAMA . ONE FINE DAY WHEN PARSHURAMA WAS LYING ON HIS LAP , A BEE STUNG KARNA ON HIS THIGH BUT HE CONTROLLED THE PAIN WHICH MADE PARSHURAMA TO WAKE UP AND SENSE THAT HE WAS NOT A BRAHMIN BUT A KSHATRIYA. THIS WAS THE MOMENT WHEN HE CURSED HIM THAT HE WOULD FORGET ALL HIS TEACHINGS WHEN HE WOULD REQUIRE THE MOST.
2. ANOTHER CURSE WAS GIVEN TO HIM BY A SAGE WHEN KARNA ACCIDENTALLY KILLED A COW. HE WAS CURSED THAT HE WOULD BE KILLED WHEN HE WILL BE HELPLESS TO DEFEND HIMSELF.
3. THE FINAL CURSE CAME WHEN KARNA AFTER BECOMING THE KING OF ANGA WOULD BE TRAVELLING IN HIS CHARIOT AND HE SEES A CHILD LAMENTING AS THE SMALL KID DROPPED THE CAN OF GHEE. KARNA WOULD BE KIND ENOUGH TO GIVE HIM ANOTHER CAN BUT HE WANTED THE SAME GHEE THAT FELL ON SOIL. SO, KARNA WOULD SQUEEZE THE SOIL WITH HIS PALM TO FILL THE CAN WITH GHEE AND THAT HIS WHEN BHOOMIDEVI WOULD CURSE HIM THAT HE WAS THE ONE WHO TROUBLED HER BY HIS DEEDS. SO, AT THE RIGHT TIME SHE WOULD TRAP THE CHARIOT WHEEL IN THE SOIL.
THESE CURSES WORKED SIMULTANEOUSLY IN THE BATTLE OF MAHABHARATA DUE TO WHICH KARNA WAS KILLED BY ARJUNA.
KARNA BECAME A VILLIAN IN THE EYES OF PEOPLE BUT THAT HAPPENED WHEN HE WAS NOT GIVEN THE EQUAL AMOUNT OF RESPECT IN FRONT OF EVERYONE.
1.HE WAS ALSO ONE OF THE PERSON WHO CAME IN THE SWAYAMVARA OF PRINCESS DRAUPADI. BUT DRAUPADI MADE HIM TO WALK OUT OF THE COURT STATING THAT SHE WOULD NOT MARRY A "SUTAPUTRA" AS IT WILL BE AGAINST HER DIGNITY.
2. WHEN HE CAME TO CHALLENGE ARJUNA IN FRONT OF EVERYONE IN HASTINAPUR BUT ARJUNA DID THE SAME THING SAYING HE WOULD NOT FIGHT AGAINST A SUTAPUTRA. HE WOULD ONLY FIGHT WITH A KSHATRIYA. AT THIS MOMENT, DURYODHAN MADE HIM THE KING OF ANGA TO EQUALIZE THE STATURE TO THAT OF ARJUNA.
THESE OFFENSES LED HIM AGAINST THE PANDAVAS AND MADE HIM LOYAL TOWARDS DURYODHAN. AFTER THIS, HE NEVER SAW THE NEGATIVE SIDE OF DURYODHAN AND TRUSTED HIM BLINDFOLDEDLY WITHOUT WORRYING ABOUT THE CONSEQUENCES. HE WAS A VIRTUOUS WARRIOR WHO HAD THE EQUAL OR EVEN MORE POTENTIAL THAN ARJUNA. HE WAS VERY KIND AND FOLLOWED A PRINCIPLE THAT IN THE MORNING AFTER HIS PRAYERS , IF ANYBODY ASKS HIM ANYTHING HE WOULD GIVE THEM WITHOUT GIVING A SECOND THOUGHT TO IT. ALTHOUGH HE WAS TOLD BY KUNTI ABOUT HIS BIRTH BUT HE CHOSE TO BE ON THE SIDE OF DURYODHAN AS A LOYAL AND TRUE FRIEND.
THE ONLY MISTAKE HE DID IN HIS LIFETIME WAS BY SUPPORTING DURYODHAN IN THE 'VASTRAHARAN' OF DRAUPADI. AS HE WAS A PURE AND PIOUS KING , THIS WAS AGAINST HIS PERSONALITY AND HISTORY SAYS THAT THIS WAS THE POINT WHEN EVEN LORD KRISHNA LOST ALL HIS RESPECTS FOR KARNA. LORD KRISHNA MADE ALL SORTS OF PLANNING TO KILL KARNA, BE IT BY SENDING LORD INDRA AS A SAGE TO ASK FOR THE ARMOUR AND EAR RING HE WAS BORN WITH OR BY SENDING KUNTI TO NEUTRALIZE HIM. HE WAS WELL AWARE OF HIS POWER AS HE COULD DEFEAT ARJUNA AND WIN THE BATTLE.
IT IS SAID THAT ONCE IN HIS DREAM, HE ENVISIONED HIS GURU PARSHURAM AND ASKED TO TAKE BACK THE CURSE. BUT, PARSHURAM STATED THAT IF HE DID SO THEN DURYODHAN WOULD WIN AND CHAOS WOULD ENSUE. SO, IT IS BETTER THAT HE DIED IN THE HANDS OF ARJUNA FOR THE BETTERMENT OF THE WORLD.
HENCE, KARNA WAS AWARE OF HIS FATE AND HE BECAME QUITE SURE WHEN ALL THE CURSES CAME INTO WORK WHEN HE WAS FIGHTING AGAINST ARJUNA.
HISTORY WOULD HAVE BEEN SOMETHING DIFFERENT IF HE WOULD HAVE BEEN DEPICTED AS A POSITIVE CHARACTER AND MIGHT BE MAHABHARATA WAR WOULDN'T HAVE HAPPENED. I WOULD SAY THE FAULT MAINLY WAS OF KUNTI. IT IS BECAUSE SHE WOULD HAVE DISCLOSED THE SECRET RIGHT AT THE MOMENT WHEN HE SAW KARNA AT HASTINAPUR WHILE CHALLENGING ARJUNA.
BUT, ABOVE ALL DESTINY PLAYED HIS ROLE. RATHER THAN PUTTING THEIR EGO, FAME,CULTURE, SOCIETY AND TRADITIONS , IF THESE CHARACTERS WOULD HAVE PUT THEIR BLOOD RELATION FIRST, THE STORY OF MAHABHARATA WOULD HAVE BEEN DIFFERENT AND ABOVE ALL KARNA WOULD ALSO HAVE BEEN PORTRAYED IN THE HISTORY.....NOT AS A VILLIAN BUT AS A HERO !!!!
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