Where starmahabhrat got it right and wrong

I have been watching mahabharat on startv since a few days.They have a new concept of characters,different from brchopra mahabharat.My observation is that they are right in making Karna's character handsome,and righteous and not with grey shades like brcmb.Karna was a handome man and known for righteousness,and only fought for duryodhana becasue he helped him.He wanted yudhishtira or dharmaraja to win the war and become the king.That Bhishma favouring Arjuna from the begining is not there.Bhishma notices  karna's valour from the begining and asks his foster father adiratha to take him to magadha so that he could learn astravidya or archery.Drona who rejects Karna in his gurukul also has respect for Karna.
The karna Kunti angle has been well shown.As I have written earlier,kunti was always talking to karna as he grew up.The makers did their own research.
The makers distorted the division of hastinapura into two kingdoms.The entire creation of Indraprastha and Arjuna's piligrimage has been distorted.But it doesnt affect the main epic.The subhadra harana was distorted.They wanted to make it more dramtic.No need for this.
The slaying of jarasandha was done in a different way.Probably starmb makers did their own research.Unlike the prevailing stories that jarasandha invited karna for a fight,it could be that duryodhana wanted to defeat jarasandha,and karna defeated jarasandha.
The Rajasuya yaga was just ok.And they did create a reason for duryodhana to become angry at the pandavas.
They got one thing right in dice game.That kana was not sitting with duryodhana when the dice game was played.This was one most important research that makers had done.And even dushasana was not sitting with duryodhana.The dice game however was distorted.To make yudhishtira look good makers made some changes.Shakuni introduces some rules before the dice game begins and yudhishtira agrees.So he has to bet till end.This was not there in original mahabharat.And as  have written earler karna didnt say anything during the dice game.The makers are also going to show him in good way.There is more drama on the dice game.
Yudhishtira should have been shown as addicted to gambling.

Karna was known all along

 We are told that karna was abandoned by kunti. in the ganges in kunti rajya and he floated and reached Hastinapura kingdom (or anga accordig to some versons) and Adiratha found him and brought him home and adopted him.Then later Kunti chooses pandu in swayamvara,and reaches hastinapura.This is not a coincidence.Kunti found out where karna reached and who has adopted him.She inquired about a boy found on the ganges,and found out that Adiratha a suta,a charioteer and a minitser of Dhritarashtra has adopted him.When a swayamvara was arranged she deliberately chose pandu,the king of hastinapura.So that she can stay in hastinapura where karna is brought up.After she went to hastinapura she met karna as a child.karna is four years older than yudhishtira.Pandu was impotent so she had children by niyoga through other men.She was constantly watching karna as he grew up.She talked to him till he reached adult age.He knew her as queen as hastinapur and also as former queen.But didnt know she is her mother.Kunti knew karna is her son.
The kmg version says when karna entered then rang bhoomi,and challenged Arjuna kunti recoginised him with many auspicious marks on him.This is not true.She already knew that he is her son,She could have even provided Adiratha financial help for karna.But she didnt admit that karna is her son even when karna is called as a suta putra,and denied admission to Drona's gurukul or denied from contesting with Arjuna as he is not a prince.That was her mistake.She told karna that he was her son just before the mahabharata war.Bu that time karna was a friend of duryodhana for a long time,and could not abandon him.But he said he will spare four pandavas other than Arjuna.She was talking to him throughout the mahabharata.This was well shown by star plus mahabharata.They were right in showing the kunti karna relationship.Kunti going to karna just before the war and asking for boon is false.Why will karna grant any boon to someone who abandoned him after he was born.karna was known all along to kunti.If she said he is her son at the time of raja suya yaga,he would have come to the pandavas side.

Karna didn't have curses

 We are always told that karna had two curses,And he was killed because of those curses.This is not true.One curse is that of his guru  parashurama,who cursed that he will forget mantras of celestial weapons when he needs them.Another curse is that of a Brahmin which said that his chariot wheel will sink in ground and he will be killed.These are later additions.The guru that Karna went is not parashurama but someone who resembled parashurama.He is another person who knows the sastas and astras well.He seems to have taught Drona first.And he probably lived remotely.And he also might have been as the same age as Bhishma is.
He saw karna and first taught him basic archery.And then becoming impressed,he taught him all divyastras.
karna didnt lie to him that he was a brahmin.And that guru after looking a karna knew that he was a natural born kshatriya.And he conisdered karna as his equal.he gave a special astra called bhargavastra.This could be something else though for karna to acheive victory over his enemies.Karna knew that he was better than Arjuna in archery,thats why he challenged him.The second curse is also false.karna wont practice archery where cows are around.Someone like him always practices in a remote place.The reason why this curse was invented was to shield Arjuna from the unrighteous killing of karna in mahabharata war.And also to shiled krishna who asked  Arjuna to do it.
There is a curse so they killed karna,so they werent repsonsible was the logic of the manupualtors.Otherwise wouldnt people say that Arjuna didnt follow the rules of war,and killed karna in an adarmic way.The manupulators wanted Arjuna not to do any Adharma.Karna's chariot sunk as it went into soft soil as mahabharata says.Karna,Arjuna were fighting for an hour,and karna was having an  upper hand.First Arjuna's chariot wheel sunk a little,then krishna got down and pulled it out.karna conitinued fighting as Arjuna was in the chariot.Then karna's chariot sunk.It is then that shalya showed his loyalty to the pandavas by not getting down to pull the chariot wheel out.Karna asked shalya to pull the chariot out,shalya refused.shalya is a relative of pandavas though he might not be their uncle.So karna had to get down to pull the chariot out.he could not take an another chariot becasue there was no chariot near him at that time.Dushasana was killed,and kaurava warriors near him went away.He was fighting alone with Arjuna.Duryodhana,Ashwatthama were watching from a distance.And karna asked Arjuna to wait as someone on the ground unarmed cant be atacked.But here krishna says karna is wicked asks Arjuna to kill karna.karna grabbed his bow and a few arrows and started fighting on the ground.Soon they were exhausted.The arrows were stored in an place in a chariot and karna couldnt get them without climbing on the chariot.karna did shoot an arrow which made Arjuna stop for a few seconds,and then he again tried to pull the chariot out.Arjuna recovered,and then killed karna.The chariot could have been pulled out by shalya.If shalya has pulled out the chariot,then karna would have continued fighting and defetaed or killed Arjuna or retreated as it was just a hour to sunset.And then he could have come again next day killed Arjuna.Arjuna was exhausted after fighting with karna.And he realsied that he will not be able to kill karna except in this way.If Arjuna is that great a warrior as he is projected to be,he would have waited till karna pulled the chariot out or allowed karna to return and comeback next day.He didnt do it,and hence we can say karna is a better warrior than Arjuna.

Karna didnt go with the kauravas to capture Drupada

 I have been reading the kmg version where its said that the kauravas went first to capture drupada as gurudakshina to drona.And then karna's name was added.Why will karna go with the kauravas as he is not a disciple of drona.Some manupulator has added karna here.And then as main kauravas including karna attacked drupada,he counterattacks and then all of them flee from the scene.Then there is no mention of karna.!It doesnt not mention karna shooting any arrows or any divyastras against drupada.And when after the kauravas were attacked by drupada,their names were mentioned,but karna is ingored.So its clear that karna didnt go with the kauravas,and his name is included to downgrade him,so that Arjuna does something that karna couldnt do.To say that karna lost to drupada is a blatant lie,and shows the conspiracy of some people to make him look inferior to Arjuna.karna defeated drupada in his digvijay later alone with his army.And karna defeated Jarasandha alone.The jarasandha from whom krishna ran away from mathura to dwaraka unable to face him in battle.The jarasandha whom krishna,bhima,arjuna had to go in disguise and ask for a wresting duel with bhima.Karna can easily defeat drupada.And kmg version also has a verse saying drona taught karna which is false.Drona's  gurukul is only for kshatriya prices.Its not even for ordianry kshatriyas.So why will drona teach karna who is not even a kshatriya at that time.And one verse says Karna became jealous of Arjuna in gurukul.This is again false.Seems some conspiritor wants to create an image of karna as someone who is jealous of Arjuna.

 Bhima defeating karna in for the Rajasuya yaga is false.Anga Kingdom is part of hastinapura,and Bhima wont fight with Karna.The sanskrit verses were translated wrongly.The verses say karnam means listen in sanskrit.And Another verse could have the term karanam which means because or by the act of.

The sanskrit verse in draupadi swayamvara that karna lifted the bow and drapuadi stopped him saying she doesnt want a suta as her lord is removed in kmg sanskrit version.The hindu rightwingers might have asked to remove them.And one verse is wrongly stated.

The sankrit verse meaning is

major kings like karna,shalya,who are famous,strong,and have knowledge in dhanurveda did not do
then how come it is possible for this brahmin who is not skilled in weapons.inclined to weakness,could string the bow?



yat karṇa śalya pramukhaiḥ pārthivair lokaviśrutaiḥ
      nānṛtaṃ balavadbhir hi dhanurvedā parāyaṇaiḥ

Now there is a word missing here.The sentence is incomplete.
It is 'the task'

It is not yat karna but yatkarin or yatkaryam which measn the task.

So it is
yat karin(yatkaryam) śalya pramukhaiḥ pārthivair lokaviśrutaiḥ
      nākritam balavadbhir hi dhanurvedā parāyaṇaiḥ


So the sentence means the task which major kings like  shalya,who are famous,strong,and have knowledge in dhanurveda was not done,then how is it possible for this brahmin who is not skilled in weapons.inclined to weakness, to string the bow?

tat kathaṃ tv akṛtāstreṇa prāṇato durbalīyasā
      baṭu mātreṇa śakyaṃ hi sajyaṃ kartuṃ dhanur dvijāḥ

It is not nanritam,It is nakritam.this means was not done.Sanskrit verse should be changed here.Karna's name is not there here.

Karna was not sitting with duryodhana in Dice hall

 When we think of the dice game between yudhishtira and shakuni who played on behalf of duryodhana,we think of pandavas sitting on one side and duryodhana,shakuni,dushasana,karna sitting on the other side in the center of the hall.But after reading the kmg version I relaised that karna wasnt sitting with duryodhana.!
He was sitting with othe kings in the hall on Asanas or seats,becasue all people who were connected with the kauravas were invited.Infact even dushasana was not sitting with duryodhana.he was also sitting with other people in the hall.Only duryodhana,shakuni were playing on one side.The kmg version says after vikarna said that draupadi has not been won,karna with a loud roar rose up,and said that she has been won,and she is a bandhaki.So its clear that he was sitting with others watching the game.And when she was brought to the hall,it is he who asked Dushasana to disrobe her.This is made up.The only people who could order dushasana are Duryodhana or Dhritarashtra.karna has no authority to order anything.Why will dushasana obey karna.And then epic says dushasana obeys karna and then cloth after cloth appears and dharma saves draupadi.This is gain made up and not a fact.Some one wnated to include karna in the draupadi being dragged episode and make him the villain.So he added these karna verses.Karna was killed unrighteosuly in the Mahabharat war by Arjuna on krishna's orders in total disregard to the rules of war.And there is no justification for this.So to justify that these karna verses were added.And also the disrobing clearly didnt take place as draupadi or the pandavas don't speak about it.Only that she being dragged is being talked.Karna was just sitting in the assembly hall and didnt say anything.It was probably duryodhana who might have said something,and elders have interfered and made dhritarashtra retunrn the kingdom to the pandavas.And then the condidtion of 12 years of exile.
And karna's words that draupadi should take another husband are also added.The verse changes in karna parva as pandavas are  like seasome seeds in soil.There is a distortion there.

The so called karna Arjuna rivalry doesnt seem to exist in kmg version.It is only after the mahabharata war that the rivalry starts.There is no jealousy towards each other.
Arjuna even after dice game doesnt vow to kill karna as written in books.After the pandavas set out to Indraprastha Bhima asks the pandavas that kauravas,karna,Shakuni,should be killed.Arjuna then says if our kingdom is not returned in 13 years,then I will slay karna.This doesnt seem to be a vow.This could have been later added.Sahandeva says he will kill shakuni.

Arjuna also says 'if we lose draupadi,we can get another hundred draupadis,but if we fight and  kill ourselves,there wont be another like us.'This shows that Arjuna didnt give importance to draupadi.he was giving importance to subhadra.

Karna didn't break the bow from behind

One of the Allegations against Karna is that he participated in the unrighteous killing of Abhimanyu.That he broke his bow from behind.This is not true.And this was a propaganda made later when karna was made wicked.After Abhimanyu attacks the main kaurava maharathis,they are overwhelmed  by his fighting skills.
Karna then asks Drona as how he could be defeated.Abhimanyu has surprised karna with striking him with arrows.Drona replies that his armour is not penetrable.I have taught his father arjuna on how to make this type of armour.You can cut his bow,break the horse reins,make the charioteers on both sides of the chariot fall down,break his chariot.And this will make him turn back,and then attack him.This Drona says to all the maharathis along with Karna.Drona says ' etat kuru maheshwasa radheya yadi sakyate, arthainam vumukhikritva paschat praharanam kuru.That means o great Archer karna,If you can do this(can bow his bow,and also  his chariot),this means he will turn back,and then attack him.Now this paschat praharanam kuru is often misunderstood as make Abhimanyu turn back that is ( vumukhikritva),and paschat praharanam kuru ( attack later).The words are misplaced before and after and this gives a different meaning.Drona asks karna to attack Abhimanyu after his bow is broken,and all these things are done.Not before.This was clearly written in borc Mahabaharata, and the kmg versions.The south versions of mahabharata have changed the sanskrit words and made it look like karna broke the bow from behind.This is not true.Karna then broke Abhimanyu's bow from front.Then kritavarma  cut off reins of horses,kripa killed charioteers,This made  Abhimanyu take a sword and jump to the ground.Then  Drona cut off his sword.Then Abhimanyu took up the chariot wheel,and fought for some time.Then took up a mace,and fought.Then dushasana's son fought with him and killed him.And they also didnt attack abhimanyu as a whole and kill him as wrongly shown in some tv versions of mahabharat.
Though Abhimanyu's death is unfortunate,it was definitely not against the rules.And karna was not repsonsible as said by some.

 tad ācāryavacaḥ śrutvā karṇo vaikartanas tavaran
     asyato laghuhastasya pṛṣatkair dhanur ācchinat

This clearly says Karna upon listening to the words of drona ,cut off the bow with arrows.

Prashaktair means with arrows.Its been corrupted as karna from behind cut off the bow.This is an attempt to make karna evil,and not a  follower of rules of war.The pro Pandava prs,wanted a reason for pandavas breaking the rules of war and winning the war.