Thus Karna was born.
At birth, he wore a natural armor and two wonderful earrings, which were one with the body. Kunti, entranced by the child’s extraordinary beauty and grace, felt a great maternal love being born within her; yet reason forced her not to let herself be carried away by feelings for which, placing him in a basket, she abandoned him in the current of the Ganges, having him be watched from a distance by a servant.
A few hours later the basket was picked up by Atiratha, a chariot driver from the Suta caste, and by his wife Radha who, having had no children and longed for one, adopted it.
Until the last tragic days of the Battle of Kuruksetra, very little was known about the story of Kunti’s union with Vivasvan.
This is a section of the book “Maha-Bharata As It Is vol. 1 of 2”.
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