Some people know about this,but not many know details.I will post some details here
When krishna took karna with him outside of hastinapura city,he revealed that he is kuni's eldest son and asked him to join the pandavas.Krishna offered the entire Indraprastha,hastinapura kingdoms to him.
That is entire aryavarta.But karna rejected it saying that he is indebted to duryodhana,and he cant desert him now.So he will have to fight for him against the pandavas.
Karna said that the war will happen anyway,and many kings will be killed.He knows whats going to happen next.He said that the all the kauravas will be killed,and the pandavas will be victorious in the war.He said let the dharmatma yudhishtira win.He compared mahabharata war to a big yagya, with krishna as the authority of the yagya and as the witness,Arjuna as he main priest of the yagya gandiva as the main paddle of the yagya by which the offering is poured,the prowess,valour of the warriors will be the ghee which is offered to the yayga,The divyastras of the dhanrdharis or the Archers will be the mantras of yagya,Abhimanyu will be the main vedic hymn chanted, Yudhishtira will be the brahma of the sacrifice or the weilder of the results, Nakula,Sahadeva will be the slayers of the sacrificial animals,all types of arrows will be the spoons which will distribute the soma juice, The maces will be the pokers to stirr the sticks of the yagya, the disciples of drona,kripa will be the assisting priests, satyaki will be your assistant, duryodhana will be the performer of the yagya.
The words the blood of the warriors is the ghee offered in the yagya comes twice again in this description of the mahabharata war.So this could be manupulated by some later writers.
The lines that bheema kills dushasana,duryodhana,and arjuna slays him and jackals take away the bodies of the warriors,thenthe finla bath of the yagya takes place are later additions.According to some versions,karna says he will slay Arjuna.Slaying Arjuna wont make a difference to the war.
These are great words,and an apt description of the mahabharat war by karna.Karna seems knowledgable person,and it is unlikely that he said those words to pandavas,draupadi.
As I said earlier,the unrighteous slaying of karna was not necessary to win the war.Arjuna,bheema could have attacked duryodhana and captured him,and then killed him.Karna would not have stopped them.
But karna erred in judgement though.When he said to duryodhana that he will fight pandavas,he was a suta putra,denied to show his valour by society.And he gave back to duryodhana more than what he gave him,Duryodhana gave him kshatriya status,and made him the king of Anga.Though basically he was a sub king.But he gave duryodhana an empire.He conquered many kingdoms,and duryodhana performed the vaishnava yagya becasue of karna.Duryodhana could not have performed the rajasuya sacrifice though,becasue Yudhishtira is still alive.And hastinapura became an empire becasue of Karna.And duryodhana 's confidence was due to him.Even Bhishma didnt conquer that many kingdoms as karna did.
But karna is now kunti putra,the kanina putra of pandu,the elder brother of the pandavas.He is a different Karna now.He gave back to duryodhana more than what he gave to karna.So there is no need to be loyal to him.I think Karna took time to accept the fact the he was a kshatriya,and krishna didnt give him time to think.He was told a week before the war.Karna should have told duryodhana,that he is elder brother of pandavas,and he cant fight hem.And he also cant fight agaisnt duryodhana.So he should have remained neutral.The pandavas would have won the war,and Karna would have been the king of hastinapura,while
Yudhishtira would have been the king of Indraprastha.Both the dharmic persons ruling the entire aryavarta,would have been beneficial to India.India needed both the kings who would have established a proper dharma,and made India prosperous.But by not accepting krishna's offer,he allowed krishna to turn the situation in his favour and kill him in unrighteous manner,and make aryavarta weaker.
Although it takes sometime to accept certain facts.Karna was just begining to accept that he is elder brother of pandavas,and he allowed bhima to kill dushasana also shows that he would have allowed duryodhana to be killed as well.Krishna realised this.Thats why he asked Arjuna to kill Karna immdiatly after Karna's chariot wheel got stuck in earth.krishna thought karna might reveal the truth to the pandavas,and come to their side.I will write another post on this.
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