Friday, April 4, 2014

Karna,Arjuna comparision


 Now lets compare karna with Arjuna as Archers,warriors.This is a topic that has been discussed by many.
Many people who believe that krishna is god say Arjuna is a better warrior.Some misconceptions like karna being defeated by drupada,bhima are cleared in this blog.And karna also didnt lose in the draupadi swayamvar.So what remains is karna's supposed loss to gandharvas, and virat war.Arjuna himself didnt win against the gandharvas,so that is cancelled out.And also the gandharvas,asuras could be later make Arjuna superior.So  only the virar war,mahabharat war remain.The importance of virat war is less.The kauravas came to mastya kingdom  and captured the cows so that Arjuna will come out of hiding,and they can identofy him.And the pandavas will again serve 12 years in exile and one year in disguise.But when duryodhana,and other kauravas arrived its already a six or seven days since the thirteethn year has passed.This Bhishma says to duryodhana.When the kauravas capture cows and wait,Arjuna comes,and Bhishma says its no use as thirteen years are alreasy passed.Now the war has no importance.But still duryodhana insists on fighting with Arjuna.And all the kaurava warriors attack Arjuna.And Arjuna defeates them.Although no kaurava warrior has the intention of killing Arjuna,the fighting continues.Arjuna,kkarna fight for soemtime and karna is wounded and flees.Then Arjuna defeats all kauravas by using the sammohana astra and making them asleep.And Arjuna tells uttara his charioteer,bring all the robes of kaurava warriors but dont go near Bhishma as he knows how to counter this weapon,This shows that Arjuna is intent on making a quick end to this,and neither he nor the kaurava warriors are interested in this.Now even Drona also faints.Which divyastra is there that drona cant counter.This whole virat war seems fake to me.
And when uttara brings the robes,Bhishma fires a few arrows,and Arjuna counters them and goes away.Within a minute all the others get up and want to attack again but Bhishma says its no use.So they stop.
This shows that Arjuna had an upperhand over karna on that day if we take this virat war as real.

Next coming to mahabharata war,karna fights for seven days and none could capture him or kill him in righteous way.He fights with satyaki,Drishtadyumna,panchala warriors and defeats them many times.
He successfulyl stops Arjuna from killing jayadratha before sunset,before jayadratha is killed by deciet,Karna,Arjuna fight for more than an hour that day.They meet in the war many times and karna counters Arjuna well.The decisive moment is on the seventeenth day.Arjuna goes to fight with the samsaptakas.I woder why arjuna didnt kill all samsaptakas by then if he is such a great warrior.kaurava army is without Bhishma,Drona and shalya on thta day as shalya is karna's charioteer.karna defeats bhima,satyaki,drishtadyumna and more than twenty panchala warriors and then defeats yudhishtira who is protected by them.If he captured yudhishtira,the war would have been over,If he killed him,the war is over.karna has won the war for the kauravas,duryodhana.This is the greatest acheivement by karna.Arjuna coudnt come as he is surrounded by samsaptakas.he then insults yudhishtira and makes him flee from the battlefiled.Thats because he wanted yudhishtira to win the war and he gave a word to kunti that he will spare four pandavas.Arjuna doesnt have a moment like this in mahabharata war.Even after Drona's death,when the kaurava army is wthout three imprortant warriors,he still could not get to duryodhana,and defeat him.He didnt have a moment like karna.And after yudhishtira flees,the pachalas attack him from all sides and karna uses Bhargavastra on them.And many panchalas get killed,flee away.Then Arjuna not able to withstand ,says its better to live,and Krishna says we should visit yudhishtira who is not on the battlefield.Its obvious that Arjuna has fled from the battlefield from karna.This is more important than karna fleeing from Arjuna in the virat war.
This shows that karna is a superior Archer,warrior than Arjuna.Both are great warriors,but in a mile,karna is ahead by two or three feet.















1 comment:

  1. Different People, Different Thoughts. One cannot know who their biological mother and/ father is until & unless told by her. My point is we cannot ignore or object our

    Puranas, unless and until we have any solid proofs/ points to defend our statements. Personal opinions/ assumptions would mostly be baseless and cannot be trusted up on or considered for further arguments.

    Nevertheless, if you got time, patience and willingness to know about 'Draupadi', you can visit my blog and comment.

    http://blog.thitherwards.com/draupadi/

    Draupadi Amman Thunai - May you all be BLESSED by HER grace!!

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