Thursday, March 20, 2014

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.



















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