Your thoughts on... Karn? - Page 25

Originally posted by: Eloquent

I am neither a karna nor an Arjuna fan 🤣

https://twitter.com/Sai_swaroopa/status/1259499676673306625?s=19

Most powerful warrior? Go figure 🤪

I am a little bit of an Arjun fan 😆 But I am still sure I am not being too delusional if I rank Arjun higher than Karn, both in terms of skills as an warrior & qualities in a character

I am talking about the original Arjun & Karn btw, not the SP versions

Originally posted by: Jmgj

Karn was most powereul warior of mahabharat no one was completely goo d in mahabharat i think u arjun fans have kind of jealousy that instead of not being lead character in mb karn is loved by audience thats why comparison krne chale ate ho

Karna was definitely a lead character of Mahabharata. Being the antagonist doesn't mean that he ceases to become the lead. Seriously shocked that Karna fan is taking away the rightful credit from him

The war was between Yudhishtir and Duryodhan, while Arjun/Bheem and Karna/Shakuni were the most important members of their respective teams. No telling of Mahabharata could go without these characters. Yudhishtir, Bheem n Arjun (although all of them had some bad qualities/actions too) were protagonists while Duryodhan, Karna and Shakuni were antagonists (although all of them had some good qualities/actions too)

Any how all six of them along with Bheeshm & Draupadi and ofcourse SriKrishna are the leads of Mahabharata

These are the nine leads of the epic, and the epic has given good(and nearly equal) importance to all of them

About Karna being the biggest warrior, well you have definitely not read the epic so will have that belief

I would like to put it in short and sweet way 'i don't respect karn' no matter what a dhanveer he is a man who can call a married women 'vesha' and provoke the kauravs to disrobe a women infront of her husbands and the entire court is neither a man in my eyes nor a warrior

neither i have sympathy for him nor respect

SP Bharat whitewash karn but the reality is actually different and i am supporting the reality

this man knows rights and wrongs he can change the direction of his life in the good path but he chose his own destruction

I don't want to blame kunti or his humiliation at every step of his life all these would not matter if he shape his life doing the right thing he would earn the respect and love he was yearning for all his life

he can be the best warrior in the world but a man who doesn't respect a women and humiliate her is no warrior in my eyes

Originally posted by: Eloquent

I am neither a karna nor an Arjuna fan 🤣

https://twitter.com/Sai_swaroopa/status/1259499676673306625?s=19

Most powerful warrior? Go figure 🤪

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Originally posted by: FlauntPessimism

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It was about a duel between Bheem & Karn where Karn could finally defeat Bheem after SIX ATTEMPTS! And in between this, he fled several times to save himself from Bheem😆 Tells a lot about how great an warrior he was😛

In original Mahabharata, both Bheem & Arjun have defeated Karn multiple times causing Karn to flee like a coward to save his butt. But people watch these distorted tv serials & fall for the whitewashed & glorified Karn and start arguing that he was the greatest warrior in Mahabharata😆

Originally posted by: .Lonewalker.

It was about a duel between Bheem & Karn where Karn could finally defeat Bheem after SIX ATTEMPTS! And in between this, he fled several times to save himself from Bheem😆 Tells a lot about how great an warrior he was😛

In original Mahabharata, both Bheem & Arjun have defeated Karn multiple times causing Karn to flee like a coward to save his butt. But people watch these distorted tv serials & fall for the whitewashed & glorified Karn and start arguing that he was the greatest warrior in Mahabharata😆

Ha ha

Seriously how do the Karna fans say that he was the best!!!

He was good and probably great but nowhere he was the best.

By the reading the narration I feel Vrihsena was much bigger a warrior than him. A lot of Pandava warriors had to jointly defeat him (something like what happened to Abhimanyu) before Arjun finally killed him

Karna was easily defeated by Arjun. In fact even during Mahabharata he could defeat Bheem only because Bheem didn't want to kill him, he knew Arjun has vowed to kill Karna, he was only defending himself.

Still had Karna killed Bheem at this time, he could have probably saved his best friend and his brother from this torturous death

Originally posted by: Roshanloverria

Karna was a molester/rapist and nothing he did, no matter how great/horrible an archer he was, he was charitraheen/character-less.

Skill is a secondary thing, character is ultimate & he lacked completely in character.

For me, a person who initiates the molestation of a woman is as good as those Nirbhaya monsters.

There is absolutely NO justification for what he did in the vastraharan.

I can't believe molestation/rape is being defended and explained in 21st century. Figures.

Originally posted by: Roshanloverria

Karn >>>>>>>>> arjun in terms of power

Prove it. Quoting Ved Vyasa's Mahabharata. Not tv serials.

At the end of the day, in the Dyut Sabha, none of the sons of Kunti followed dharma.

There were only two men worthy of respect in that sabha - Vidura & Vikarna!

Originally posted by: Roshanloverria

Please do the read the epic. Karna didn't simply do ONE wrong thing.

He was part of Suyodhana's misdeeds, culminating in the dice hall.

Karna and Dusshasan collaborated in perpetrating a SEXUAL ASSAULT! Please don't falsely equate it to a MARRIAGE, however unusual it was. That the Pandavas didn't protect Panchali is a horrendous failing while what Karna did was a CRIME. There is a difference.

Panchali never said anything remotely similar to Andhe ka putr andha. It is a modern invention. Also, that refusal to marry a Sutha shows only in 4 put of 1600 plus manuscripts. Ie in 0.25% manuscripts. Critical edition dismissed it as later interpolation. Let's say she did say both. 1) A silly taunt at Suyodhana was punished by stripping her in front of a group of men and trying to make her a sex slave to the Kauravas? You know what that makes Suyodhana? A criminal as opposed to a woman who threw a verbal taunt. 2) She was entitled to marry or not marry whomever she wanted since it was her swayamvara. She didn't say anything bad about Suthas even in those 4 manuscripts. She didn't say they were inferior. She simply didn't want to marry one. If Karna actually tried to have her sexually assaulted in retaliation, it makes him just like the acid attackers of today.

Moreover, Karna's kingdom was the centre of a child sex trafficking ring. He was the Abu Bakr al Baghdadi of his times, profiting out of selling orphaned children as sex slaves.

He was also perhaps the most casteist of all the major characters in Mahabharata as shown from his conversation with Shalya.

In fact, he was the opposite of what you said he was. Karna was a man trying to cover up a lifetime of criminal activity by donating. Even these days, we see corrupt politicians donating to charities and temples to cover up their criminality. Karna was exactly the same.