Originally posted by: proteeti
Personally I believe Krishna wasn't being entirely serious when he offered Draupadi.
He knew Karna held his ego above everything else, and offering anything (let alone the crown PLUS the ho-sakti-thi-trophy-wife) would actually root him further with the Dury&co.
Woh kisi se daan nahi na leta tha. 😳
Maybe this proposal from Krishna was actually to stop him from even considering Kunti's proposal that came soon after.
BRC Karna himself said, if he were to be given the crown, he would simply surrender that to Dury and the whole point of the war would've been laid to waste. If Karna was indeed that much in favour of Dury, then he would've accepted without any delay.
He probably wanted Dury to get his comeuppance without HIM having to take that decision as the eldest Pandav.