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A common question/ feeling: If #Karna's #kavach kundal had NOT be taken from him, would he have won the war? #Mahabharat
Well, no, sorry, even WITH Kavach kundal he lost enough number of wars. Kavach kundal did NOT ensure his victory at all as many examples show.
Well, no, sorry, even WITH Kavach kundal he lost enough number of wars. Kavach kundal did NOT ensure his victory at all as many examples show.
So then why did #Indra ask for them?? Did Indra cheat to protect his son, #Arjuna??
The most hilarious idea EVER, this. Kavach kundal could NOT sail off Karna's body and go kill Arjuna anyhows. Mde of amrita, at MOST, they cud keep karna alive, that's it. But what Indra did do
The most hilarious idea EVER, this. Kavach kundal could NOT sail off Karna's body and go kill Arjuna anyhows. Mde of amrita, at MOST, they cud keep karna alive, that's it. But what Indra did do
He actually took away smthgn that cud NOT HARM Arjuna and HANDED OVER a weapon to Karna that COULD kill Arjuna. If Indra wanted to protect Arjuna, why the heck wud he take away smthng ONLY protected Karna's body and GIVE him a nasty fatal type weapon?
Let's see where else Arjuna was possibly in danger and Indra was sitting at the sidelines munching popcorn and watching. Matsya war- Arjuna faces off against the FULL Kaurava army SINGLE HANDED. Indra thinks this is going to be entertaining and he comes to the heaves to WATCH.
If he was soooo protective of Arjuna, he wud have created a thunderstorm, heavy rains, typhoon, anything like that right?? to STOP the war and protect his son? After all, Arjuna was ALONE, no brothers, no army, no krishna, only the terrified Uttarakumar.
Another example, Indra SENT his son happily off to fight the Nivatakavachas etc. These were enemies the GODS cud not defeat and he sent Arjuna off with Matali, again ALONE- no army, nothing. Sound like a protective father who was ever- so-worried abt his son's life??
Let's come to #Karna now. Karna lost the gurudakshina war, swayamwar war, gandharva battle with kavach kundal. he won battles elsewhere but never against any of the Pandavas. So why wud Indra want to take it away to 'protect' his son? It made no difference.
So why did Indra ask for the kavach kundal at all? What wud happen if the K-K had NOT been taken away from Karna bfr war? He wud have still lost the war but wud have been alive, possibly bcos the kavach kundal were made of amrit and might have made it difficult for him to die
So if he was alive after end of war and Kunti revealed his birth secret to the Pandavas, then Yudi wud have handed the kingdom to him. Considering that karna had done a lot of adharma in his life (starting from early age he was involved WITH Dury in all his plots including
the lakshagurh) it would not have been a fair conclusion at all.
That is probably why Indra stepped into take the Kavach kundal from him to ensure he would not stay alive post war and end up with the kingdom beign handed over by the Pandavas.
That is probably why Indra stepped into take the Kavach kundal from him to ensure he would not stay alive post war and end up with the kingdom beign handed over by the Pandavas.
The idea that Indra took the K-K to save Arjuna is rather hilarious if you consider that he actually handed Karna a GUARANTEED, INFALLIBLE weapon with which he cud kill Arjuna. Kavach kundal cud NOT kill Arjuna no?? So actually Indra put Arjuna MORE at risk with his exchange deal
So basically, this was not the reason for Indra taking away K-K at all. So what else cud it be?? To get that, we need to see WHAT benefit the K-K gave to Karna- not protection from defeat, nope, but maybe protection from death. Even DEFEATED, Karna still wud have got the kingdom
if he had survived the war, and that wud have defeated the very purpose of the war. A much more (than me) learned friend on Quora @Lakshmitelidev1 shared this:
