Originally posted by: FlauntPessimism
Me too. Always felt those were from some old sources. Actually I have read Mritunhay only a bit, its still there in my bookshelf but overload of Karna mahaanta made me irritated, so left it halfway
So I always used to believe that the supposed Karna Vrushali Supriya stories are some famous folkores (even then I knew its not in Mahabharat of any ancient retelling), later I got to know that all these were made by Shivaji Sawant in Mritunjay, I felt so cheated I can not tell you.
He also introduced a foster brother of Karna named Shon (Karna had many foster brothers, one died in Virat war, 3 were killed by Abhimanyu on Chakravyu day etc.), but none of them were named Shona, however if you today ask if Karna had a foster brother, you will get only one name Shon.
Wondering what these retellings do to us completely changing the narrative. My husband's cousin recently told me that he has read Karna's wife and took it as real account, and was citing instances from it....
Anyway we can continue this discussion in General Discussion Thread else people might get confused on unrelated topic. I just replied here because I wanted you to get a notification and am unable to tag you into new posts for some reason
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