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Sunday, March 8, 2015

Lomasa

Lomasa to Yudhishtra

O bull of the Bharata race, well do I know that Karna is
  1. endued with great ardour and 
  2. energy and 
  3. strength and 
  4. prowess that is incapable of being baffled. 
  5. Skilled in fierce conflict, 
  6. he hath not his rival in battle; 
  7. that he is a mighty bowman, 
  8. a hero deft in the use of fierce weapons and 
  9. cased in the best of mail. 
  10. Well do I know that that exalted son of Aditya resembleth the son of Maheswara himself. 
http://brahmasaraswati.blogspot.com/2015/03/lomasa.html


Fire

Yudhistira  Said
 
Karna also of the Suta caste is a mighty warrior versed in celestial weapons. In respect of the impetus of his weapons, he is endued with the strength of the Wind-god. Himself like a flame of fire, 
  1. the arrows (proceeding from him) constitute its tongues. 
  2. The slaps of his left hand cased in leathern fence constitute the crackling of that flame. 
  3. The dust of the battle-field is its smoke. 
Urged by the sons of Dhritarashtra even as the wind urgeth the fire, Karna like unto the all-consuming fire at the end of the Yuga that is sent by Death himself, will, without doubt, consume my troops like unto a heap of straw.

http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/m03/m03086.htm

Saturday, March 7, 2015

Wicked

Yudhisthira to arjuna

That Karna of wicked understanding who in the assembly; before the Kuru chiefs, had addressed Krishna, saying,'Why, O Krishna, dost thou not abandon the Pandavas that are divested of might, exceedingly weak, and fallen?'That Karna who had vowed for thy sake, saying that he would not return from battle without having slain Krishna and Partha.I ask, doth that Karna of sinful understanding lie today on the field, his body pierced with shafts? Thou knowest the nature of the battle that took place when the Srinjayas and the Kauravas encountered each other, the battle in which I was brought to that distressful plight. Encountering that Karna, hast thou slain him today? O Savyasaci, hast thou today, with blazing shafts sped from gandiva, cut off from the trunk of that Karna of wicked understanding his resplendent head decked with earrings? Pierced with Karna's shafts today, I had, O hero, thought of thee (that thou wouldst slay him)! Hast thou then, by the slaughter of Karna, made that thought of mine true? In consequence of the protection granted him by Karna, Suyodhana, filled with pride, always recked us little. Displaying thy prowess, hast then today destroyed that refuge of Suyodhana? That Suta's son of wicked soul, that Karna of great wrath, who had formerly, in the presence of the Kauravas and in the midst of the assemblycalled us sesame seeds without kernel, encountering that Karna in battle, hast thou slain him today?That Suta's son of wicked soul who had, laughing the while, commanded Duhshasana to forcibly drag Yajnasena's daughter won in gambling by Subala's son, hath he been slain today by thee?That Karna of little understanding who, having been counted as only half a car-warrior during the tale of rathas and atirathas, had upbraided that foremost of all wielders of weapons on Earth, our grandsire Bhishma, hath he been slain by thee?Extinguish, O Phalguna, this fire in my heart that is born of vindictiveness and is fanned by the wind of humiliation, by telling me that thou hast slain Karna today, having encountered him in battle! The news of Karna's slaughter is exceedingly agreeable to me. Tell me, therefore, how the Suta's son hath been slain! Like the divine Vishnu waiting for the arrival of Indra with the intelligence of Vritra's slaughter, I had so long waited for thee, O hero!"'"
 
http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/m08/m08066.htm

Day and Night

For thirteen years, OF Dhananjaya, through fear of Karna,
  1. I did not obtain any sleep by night or 
  2. any comfort by day!
http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/m08/m08066.htm

Bhishma or Kripa or Drona

 Yudhisthira to arjuna :  
 What use have I of 
  1. life or 
  2. of kingdom either, 
since Karna, that ornament of battle, today cried fie on me? That which I had never before met with at the hands of 
  1. Bhishma or 
  2. Kripa or 
  3. Drona in battle, 
that I met with today at the hands of the Suta's son, that mighty car-warrior!

http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/m08/m08066.htm