{"id":74316,"date":"2025-06-19T02:33:58","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T21:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/?p=74316"},"modified":"2025-06-17T18:12:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T12:42:44","slug":"thus-karna-was-born","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/thus-karna-was-born\/","title":{"rendered":"Thus Karna was Born"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Karna.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-74317 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Karna-300x216.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Karna-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Karna.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Thus Karna was born.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\">At birth, he wore a natural armor and two wonderful earrings, which were one with the body. Kunti, entranced by the child&#8217;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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\">\u00a0Until the last tragic days of the Battle of Kuruksetra, very little was known about the story of Kunti&#8217;s union with Vivasvan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br style=\"font-weight: 400\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff\">This is a section of the book \u201cMaha-Bharata As It Is vol. 1 of 2\u201d.<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To buy the complete book, <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;color: #ff0000\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;text-decoration: underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kadachaeditions.com\/art\/maha-bharata-as-it-is-vol-1-of-2-english\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">click here<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"font-weight: 400\" \/><br \/>\n<br style=\"font-weight: 400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thus Karna was born. 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