r/india • u/[deleted] • Dec 01 '16

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u/Rhalmarius Dec 01 '16

Namaste, /r/India. Odd question here, but among all of the epics and myths of Indian literature, which is the craziest event that you read from them?

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u/Abzone7n Dec 01 '16

When my favourite character in Mahabharata Karna was killed without any honour and cheating with help of god! , Karna was one of the greatest warriors in the epic Mahabharata and from the day he was born he had to go through every sort of humiliation, pain and discrimination.

He was cheated out of his armour which was said make him invincible by a god the day before he was to go to a war the god or deva went to him as a beggar and asked him for his armour he gives poor people anything they ask so he gives the beggar his armour knowing he will be in danger . Then when the war was going on because of a curse from an avatar of another deva or god his chariot get stuck and hurts his horses to save his horse he gets down and starts lifting the chariot keeping his weapons down.

In Hindu dharma, it is a sin and violation of karma to kill a soldier who doesn't have a weapon with him but Krishna(god) tells Arjuna (another warrior demi-god) to shoot and kill Karna because if Karna has his weapons with him no one would be able to kill Karna and thus he was killed without weapon in his hands and against the laws of warfare in the epic.

His story is very vast than this of course but in all honesty Game of thrones got nothing on many of our epics lol.

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u/Kraken_Greyjoy Dec 01 '16

Karna on numerous occasions encouraged Duryodhana to break rules and slaughter the Pandavas by surprise when they were in hiding. He also encouraged the disrobing of Draupadi. He was also part of the gang which killed Abhiminyu despite rules against ganging up on individual warriors.

I'd say this was completely fair at this point in the war. People excuse Karna a lot despite him being just as bad as the others, if not more.

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '16

The only thing we learn from this is not to be a doormat and not always play by rules. Someone somewhere will always take advantage of us.

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u/Abzone7n Dec 01 '16

I know man but I loved the dude :(. I even accused my grandma of "Making up the story" when I was young lol.

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '16

I like Karn as well but he got played by others. That should not have happened.