Originally posted by: Viswasruti
Gayatri, love you so much Yaar🤗🤗🤗, I know your love for me, that is why before logging off written this to make it clear that Karna is a grey character, in TV serials, the writers tempted to glorify the Karna role because of the good actors there played that role.
There are versions that Ravan was greater Pandit than Ram and because of the curse he behaved like that. Different versions, different perspectives, but in the original Vyas Bharath it was clearly mentioned that Karṇa was very much involved in the act of disrobing Draupadī. Indeed, Karṇa’s role in that shameful abhorrent humiliation of Draupadi in the dice hall, along with the part played by him in the collective slaughter of Abhimanyu in the battlefield, are the two disgraceful blots, which mar Karṇa’s character in the epic.
In Chapter-68 of the Sabhā Parva. Miffed at Vikarṇa’s rather unexpected opposition to his brothers’ despicable conduct, Karṇa then had said, after setting out a deceptively fallacious line of arguments:
त्वं तु केवलबाल्येन धार्तराष्ट्र विदीर्यसे।
यद् व्रवीषि सभामध्ये बालः स्थविरभाषितम्॥
न च धर्मं यथावत् त्वं वेत्सि दुर्योधनावर।
यद् ब्रवीषि जितां कृष्णां न जितेति सुमन्दधीः॥
कथं ह्यविजितां कृष्णां मन्यसे धृतराष्ट्रज।
यदा सभायां सर्वस्वं न्यस्तवान् पाण्डवाग्रजः॥
मन्यसे वा सभामेतामानीतामेकवासम्।
अधर्मेणेति तत्रापि शृणु मे वाक्यमुत्तमम्॥
एको भर्त्ता स्त्रिया देवैर्विहितः कुरुनन्दन।
इयं त्वनेकवशगा बन्धकीति विनिश्चिता॥
अस्याः सभामानयनं न चित्रमिति मे मतिः।
एकाम्बरधरत्वं वाप्यथवापि विवस्त्रता॥
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दुःशासन सुबालोऽयं विकर्णः प्राज्ञवादिकः।
पाण्डवानाञ्च वासांसि द्रौपद्याश्चाप्युपाहार॥
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ततो दुःशासनो राजन् द्रौपद्या वसनं बलात्।
सभामध्ये समाक्षिप्य व्यपाक्रष्टं प्रचक्रमे॥ [Mahābhārata, 2.29 – 2.40]
Translation:
O, son of Dhṛtarāṣṭra! You alone are expressing dissent due to your youthful impudence. You are but an immature lad, who has the temerity to talk like an elder in this assembly of wise men.
Younger sibling of Duryodhana! You are not well-versed in the intricacies of dharma; hence, out of sheer ignorance, you are declaring Draupadī as one not won though she has been rightfully won in dice.
O son of Dhṛtarāṣṭra! When Yudhiṣṭhira as the eldest Pāṇḍava has staked his all, how then can you consider Draupadī as not won in fair challenge?
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If you think that it is unrighteous to have brought Draupadī, clad in one cloth-piece in her state of menstruation, then pay attention to my words.
O scion of the Kurus! Scriptures ordain that a woman should have only one husband. See, Draupadi is under the control of many males; hence she is for sure an unchaste woman. Therefore, given her status as a woman of easy virtue, there is no breach of dharma in bringing her to this hall, no matter if she is clad in one cloth, or even bereft of any clothes.
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O Duḥśāsana! You need not pay any heed to this Vikarṇa, who, with his utter precocity has the cheek to speak like a wise man. Hence, go ahead and seize the clothes of Draupadī and all the Pāṇḍavas.
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Then Vidur said --- O King! Then, being so bidden by Karṇa, Duḥśāsana, in open court and in full view of all present, began forcefully drawing at Draupadī’s robe.
It would thus be clear that according to Vyāsa’s original narration, it was on Karṇa’s direct instigation that Duḥśāsana proceeded to disrobe Draupadī.
Thanks Gayatri 🤗for this interesting convo with you. Karna was a vice person with a cursed life.
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