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Karna's wife: In search of her dead husband...!


Episode#74

Karna died on seventeen day of the war and he was breathing his last, he cast a farewell glance at the resplendent sun that was shining with great splendor. He stared at sun trying his best to absorb the rays that bathed his entire physique. His face now glowed with greater sheen akin to the dying flame of a lamp that glitter the maximum before it goes out. Yes...Karna too appeared to be dazzling all over before he breathed his last.

She felt a sharp dagger of excruciating pain in her bosom; suddenly she turned pale and breathless. She gasped for breath but the incessant pain continued to choke her! Finally, she buried her tear filled face in her ha D's with her fist digging deep into her burning eyes; she realized the heart rending truth could not cry anymore.

Karna was dead and now nothing was left for her. The entire world had come to  standstill, it was a sunset, on her personal horizon too and the world suddenly plunged into darkness. She was not in her conscious state of mind anymore...She was unable to decipher what was happening to her and around her.

The night seemed to be endlessly long; the moon hid behind the clouds, she felt there would not be another dawn solely meant for her. The sun refused to show up and before daybreak she walked towards the battlefield of Kurukshetra.

Everywhere around her was mountain pile of human debris; pieces of human flesh strewn all over. Her fragile heart suddenly hardened and she ceased to hear the screams and shrieks in the air, she was oblivious of the pools of blood through which she was walking, the stench of dead bodies did not reach her olfactory senses even as she waded her way searching for her beloved husband Karna in the deceptive corridors of horrifying darkness.

Suddenly, she cited him lying alongside his chariot wheel, her heart missed a beat again, yet she dared to go closer to him, her heart beat faster than ever, she stole a glance at his lovable face that ways carried a luminous quality; even after his death his face reflected the resplendent sun. Gears brimmed in her eyes and a heartfelt sigh escaped her lips until she saw a shadow behind her, she turned around and saw Krishna, Kunti and Pandavas. As per the tradition ritual, his brother Yudhishtira was to light the pyre of Karna, but she requested Vasudev Krishna to light as it was Karina's last wish, thus Vasudev Krishna did the last rituals of Karna.

She stated unblinkingly towards the rising flames of Karna's pyre, feeling a similar fire raging through her, she could not discern whether it was pain or wrath but it seemed as if the flames engulfed her from all the sides. At last Karna obtained legitimacy of being the eldest brother of Pandavas, which he deserved right at the outset.

"In this world of greed, power and betrayal, only one man Karna had followed the path of righteousness - not even his brothers could do it. I also mourn the death of Karna - the Great man Karna of the three worlds." Vasudev Krishna consoled Vrushali the beautiful wife of Karna.

In Mahabharata the two eminent characters who received the maximum humiliation for no fault of theirs - was Draupadi and Karna. Draupadi had longed for a husband who would be blessed by unfathomable wisdom, iron cladmoral values, a physically strong and well-being person who would also possessed additional qualities of excellent skills of archery would be very fine looking personality.

Fortunately, Karna was the only character in Mahabharata who possessed all these rare qualities but was denied by Draupadi as he was the son of charioteer.... Paradoxically - and all these qualities were present in the Pandavas but we're scattered amongst them.

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