He cursed him that he will forget the very potent mantra on the battlefield when he most needed it. Parshuram, who taught him Brahmastra, accidentally discovered that Karna was a Kshatriya by birth. Karna 'lied' to Parshurama that he was a Brahmin. Karna knowingly, unknowingly committed some sins due to which his death at the hands of Arjuna became a strong possibility. Nakula & Sahadeva (The Twins): The Ashwini Kumars - Doctor Twins The Curses that did Karna in: Yudhistra (Dharmaraja) : Lord Yama Dharmaraaja. His brothers - the Pandavas - born to Kunti when she married Dhritarashtra's brother Pandu - too were born with the help of the same boon.

Now Karna grew up as a charioteer's child. The child born to her with kavach - a natural shell-like impregnable armour for the skin - and kundal (the earrings in his ears - Karna) due to which he named the boy Karna. The baby was set adrift down the river and the box was found by Adhirath - the charioteer to Dhritarashtra, the king of Hastinapur. She bore the son to him but as a product of the mantra that she had innocently tested. She was then only a child and had tested the mantra for veracity and the Sun God appeared before her. Kunti - then an unwed princess - had begotten Karna through a boon she had been granted by sage Durvasa whom she had served like a daughter. He died on day 17 of the battle when Arjun fired a weapon upon a distressed unarmed Karna.Īrjun was his brother as both Karna and Arjun were born of the same mother. Karna was the Senapati or te General of the Kaurava army. The war between the Kauravas and Pandavas during the Dwapar Yug at the battlefield of Kurukshetra took place over 18 days. Here are a few facts as mentioned in the Mahabharat as events that took place in Karna's life right up to his death in the war at Kurukshetra. While one may find a host of readers/viewers, experts, religious experts who may consider him a man who was wronged right since his birth, slighted and denied his rights, there is an equally strong section that argues that he sinned more than was sinned against. Karna (also written as Karan) is one of the most controversial characters in the epic Mahabharat.

Later Kunti married into the Kuru clan (to Pandu - the brother of Dhritarashtra) and begot 5 sons between her husband's other wife Madri and herself.

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