Dharmakshetra :) - Page 58

Originally posted by: AnuMP

😆 Someone kill me now. I am going to support Karna in this. But being an elder does not automatically make you right or worthy of respect. In fact, wasn't that the problem in the DS? The elders and so called betters clinging to their version of 'subtle' morality?

Originally posted by: Brahmaputra

@indianprincess - as far as I remember, Dhritarashtra himself was against Dice game. Vidura also equally opposed. Dury did not consult anyone else than these two before fixing the game, not even his best friend Karna. So there was no need for Drona, Kripa etc to comment on it when they were not asked. Dhritarshtra was evidently against the game. But when Dury threatened him with doing suicide, the blind father gave his half minded consent. Vidura was reluctant to go IP & invite Ps but had to do it finally as it was an order. All other characters except Shakuni are seen only in DS, never in any stage of planning.

"Yudhishthira said,--'O Kshatta, if we sit to a match at dice, we may quarrel. What man is there, who knowing all this, will consent to gamble? What dost thou think fit for us? We all are obedient to thy counsels.'

"Vidura said,--'I know that gambling is the root of misery, and I strove to dissuade the king from it. The king, however, hath sent me to thee. Having known all this, O learned one, do what is beneficial.

"Yudhishthira said,--'Besides the sons of Dhritarashtra what other dishonest gamblers are there ready for play? Tell us, O Vidura, who they are and with whom we shall have to play, staking hundreds upon hundreds of our possessions.'

"Vidura said,--'O monarch, Sakuni, the king of Gandhara, an adept at

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dice, having great skill of hand and desperate in stakes, Vivingati, king Chitrasena, Satyavrata, Purumitra and Jaya, these, O king, are there.'

"Yudhishthira said,--'It would seem then that some of the most desperate and terrible gamblers always depending upon deceit are there. This whole universe, however, is at the will of its Maker, under the control of fate. It is not free. O learned one, I do not desire, at the command of king Dhritarashtra to engage myself in gambling. The father always wisheth to benefit his son. Thou art our master, O Vidura. Tell me what is proper for us. Unwilling as I am to gamble, I will not do so, if the wicked Sakuni doth not summon me to it in the Sabha? If, however, he challengeth me, I will never refuse. For that, as settled, is my eternal vow."

Originally posted by: Brahmaputra

@Brishti - thanks for the advise. I must tell I was a great Karna hater until I read original MB.

Originally posted by: Urmila11

And he deserves blame both for disagreeing to wage war and later for waging war 😆 very interesting! In Van parva, Udyoga parva he is blamed for trying to stop war... oh how dare he not want to take revenge on them who assaulted his wife? Ok fine. But then, after war, people again raise their finger to the same man. How dare he cause such a mass destruction? It's a double edged sword. He should always be blamed, because people have decided to blame him no matter what!

Originally posted by: .Sanskruti

well if nt human then what Karna ws considered to b so long??😲😆

Originally posted by: Brishti_Sarkar

I guess you said earlier you only read the parts wgere Karna was mentioned. If you have read the whole epic then no problem with that.

Originally posted by: .Reshama.

am impressed we have a lot gyanis in this threaD👏