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1 1 | the day a warrior named Karna., of unknown origin, appeared
2 1 | rivalry between Arjun and Karna is the leading thought of
3 1 | sons of Pandu. as well as Karna, were, like the heroes of
4 1 | of the Aswin twins, and Karna was the son of Surya the
5 1, 5 | V - THE ADVENT OF KARNA~Now the feats of arm are
6 1, 5 | of hostile cities, lofty Karna treads the plain,~In his
7 1, 5 | spake proud and peerless Karna in his accents deep and
8 1, 5 | Drona gave the word, and Karna, Pritha's war-beloving son,~
9 1, 6 | And he spake to gallant Karna with a loving fond embrace:~"
10 1, 6 | and it is done!"~Answered Karna to Duryodhan, " Prince!
11 1, 6 | spake in accents rude~Unto Karna who in triumph calm and
12 1, 6 | braggarts-witness be this mighty host!~Karna answered calm and proudly, "
13 1, 6 | his glist'ning arms arose,~Karna clasped the Kuru's princes,
14 1, 6 | love,~Sun-god SURYA over Karna shed his light from far
15 1, 6 | in open sunshine radiant Karna stood revealed!~Proud Duryodhan
16 1, 6 | and his brothers stood by Karna calm and bold~Drona stood
17 1, 6 | wept, for none must fathom Karna was her eldest son!~
18 1, 7 | VII - THE ANOINTMENT OF KARNA~Crested Karna, helméd Arjun,
19 1, 7 | ANOINTMENT OF KARNA~Crested Karna, helméd Arjun, proudly trod
20 1, 7 | base and nameless foe!"~Karna silent heard this mandate,
21 1, 7 | prince and chief we own,~Karna by his warlike valour is
22 1, 7 | crownéd kings the peer,~Karna shall be crownéd monarch,
23 1, 7 | On the throne they seated Karna famed in many a deathful
24 1, 7 | ordain,~And anointed crownéd Karna king of Anga's fair domain,~
25 1, 7 | his kingly robes arrayed~Karna unto prince Duryodhan thus
26 1, 7 | What return can grateful Karna humbly render on his part?"~"
27 1, 7 | Be it so!" responded Karna, with a proud and noble
28 1, 8 | staff upheld his frame,~Karna, now a crownéd monarch,
29 1, 8 | clasped unto his bosom crownéd Karna's noble head,~And on Karna'
30 1, 8 | Karna's noble head,~And on Karna's dripping forehead, fresh
31 1, 8 | And he sought to humble Karna with reproachful words unkind~"
32 1, 8 | offerings steal!"~Quivered Karna's lips in anger, word of
33 1, 9 | Mark the great and gallant Karna decked in rings and weapons
34 1, 9 | her poor and lowly lair,~Karna comes to rule the wide earth,
35 1, 9 | Slowly with the peerless Karna proud Duryodhan left the
36 1, 9 | gallant victor!" "Valiant Karna's won the day!"~"Prince
37 1, 9 | greater joy Duryodhan fastened Karna to his side,~Feared no longer
38 1, 9 | en Yudhishthir reckoned Karna mightiest warrior on the
39 2, 2 | Came the Kuras with brave Karna in their pride and matchless
40 2, 4 | princes of the Kuruland,~Karna proud and peerless archer,
41 2, 5 | Panchala's bride!~Uprose Karna, peerless archer, proudest
42 2, 5 | sons in terror whispered, Karna sure must hit the aim!~But
43 2, 5 | Suta's son I will not wed,"~Karna heard with crimsoned forehead,
44 3, 1 | Car-borne Salya, peerless Karna, came with bow and spear
45 4, 3 | Draupadi's plaint.~But brave Karna, though a warrior,--Arjun'
46 4, 3 | And his red glance fell on Karna like a tongue of withering
47 4, 3 | hateful truth might not deny,~Karna laughed, but saintly Bhishma
48 6, 1 | Bhishma, Drona, peerless Karna, led the Kuru warriors brave,~
49 6, 1 | proud Duryodhan, archer Karna known to fame,~Drona too
50 6, 4 | the mighty Bhishma, archer Karna, tall and fair,~Them I seek
51 7, 2 | bold,~Unto Kripa, archer Karna, and to chieftains young
52 7, 3 | Gandhara's wily son,~Vanquish Karna though world-honoured for
53 7, 4 | stop this fatal war,~Archer Karna thirsts for battle, moved
54 7, 5 | doughty Drona rules the war,~Karna matchless with his arrows,
55 7, 10| the bright-gods, archer Karna true and bold?~If in dubious
56 8, 3 | thy place, let faithful Karna lead my gallant Kuru line!~
57 8, 3 | Drona skilled in weapons, Karna archer proud and bold,~Wash
58 8, 9 | sons incline,~Grant that Karna lead my forces 'gainst the
59 8, 10| Bhishma lone and dying lay,~Karna, though he loved not Bhishma
60 8, 10| Bhishma heard the tread of Karna and he oped his glazing
61 8, 10| Pride and envy, noble Karna, filled our warlike hearts
62 8, 10| More I have to tell thee, Karna, but my parting breath may
63 8, 10| pale,~Arjun beats not noble Karna in the deeds of valour done,~
64 8, 10| excels in birth and lineage, Karna, thou art Pritha's son!~
65 8, 10| fame,~Arjun is thy brother, Karna, end this sad fraternal
66 8, 10| life blood in the vengeful Karna woke!~
67 9, 2 | rising wrath and anguish Karna's noble bosom bled,~Karna
68 9, 2 | Karna's noble bosom bled,~Karna who had stayed from battle
69 9, 2 | and jealous anger clouded Karna's warlike heart,~And while
70 9, 2 | led, all idly slumbered Karna's bow and dart,~Now he marked
71 9, 2 | tongue of red fire shot from Karna's flaming eye,~And he sprang
72 9, 2 | clouds gave back the din,~Karna met his dearest foeman and,
73 9, 2 | Proud Duryodhan came to Karna, and fair Sindhu's king
74 9, 4 | shone,~Elephant's rope was Karna's ensign made of rich and
75 9, 4 | the western clouds aflame,~Karna's self and five great chieftains
76 9, 4 | Charged upon the peerless Karna as he marked the day's decline,~
77 9, 4 | a dark and inky shroud!~Karna deemed the closing darkness
78 9, 4 | lit the gloom of night!~Karna, furious in his anger for
79 9, 4 | Ghatotkacha twice the steeds of Karna slew,~Twice the humbled
80 9, 4 | Twice the humbled steedless Karna from the dubious battle
81 9, 4 | flew,~Came again the fiery Karna, vengeance flamed within
82 9, 5 | Yield thy place to gallant Karna, Anga's prince of warlike
83 9, 5 | battle, whither now doth Karna stay?~Know the truth; the
84 10 | X - KARNA-BADHA~(Fall of Karna)~KARNA was chosen as the
85 10 | KARNA-BADHA~(Fall of Karna)~KARNA was chosen as the leader
86 10 | The great contest between Karna and Arjun, long expected
87 10 | the Indian poet represents Karna as equal to Arjun in strength
88 10 | accident.~After the death of Karna, Salya led the Kuru troops
89 10, 1 | I - KARNA AND ARJUN MEET~Sights of
90 10, 1 | Till his glances fell on Karna and his warlike heart beat
91 10, 1 | warlike heart beat high!~"Karna!" so exclaimed Duryodhan, "
92 10, 1 | thy prowess bold,~Peerless Karna, lead us onward to a brighter
93 10, 1 | food and cattle, joyous Karna on them pressed,~And the
94 10, 1 | the holy rite concluded, Karna ranged his men in war,~To
95 10, 1 | slain,~Helméd Arjun, crownéd Karna, met at last by will of
96 10, 2 | II - FALL OF KARNA~At the break of morning
97 10, 2 | At the break of morning Karna unto Prince Duryodhan went,~
98 10, 2 | fulfilling warrior's duty Karna dyes the gory plain!~Long
99 10, 2 | course this evening or proud Karna's shall be o'er,~Room is
100 10, 2 | Arjun's glory and for archer Karna's fame,~One must sink and
101 10, 2 | beats not, scarcely rivals, Karna's proud and peerless fame!~
102 10, 2 | gift of gods in heaven,~Karna's bow the famed Vijaya is
103 10, 2 | On the youthful arms of Karna his destructive weapon laid!~
104 10, 2 | against the car-borne Arjun, Karna's fiery chariot lead,~Salya,
105 10, 2 | Duryodhan; warlike Salya mounted Karna's sounding car,~Karna sought
106 10, 2 | mounted Karna's sounding car,~Karna sought for mighty Arjun
107 10, 2 | war:~"Hundred milch-kine Karna offers, costly garment,
108 10, 2 | swift and thund'ring car!"~Karna spake, but long and loudly
109 10, 2 | Arjun soon shall smite thee, Karna, for he knows nor dread
110 10, 2 | Darkly frowned the angry Karna, Salya held the loosened
111 10, 2 | serried ranks of battle Karna drove in f urious mood,~
112 10, 2 | slain,~Onward came the fiery Karna like the ocean's heaving
113 10, 2 | scornful anger thus to archer Karna said:~"Hast thou, Karna,
114 10, 2 | Karna said:~"Hast thou, Karna, vowed the slaughter of
115 10, 2 | Lightning-like it came on Karna, struck and pierced him
116 10, 2 | Pale with anguish, wrathful Karna fiercely turned the tide
117 10, 2 | penance! "thus insulting Karna said,~"Famed for virtue
118 10, 2 | tardly Arjun, base insulting Karna slain,~Karna dealing dire
119 10, 2 | base insulting Karna slain,~Karna dealing dire destruction
120 10, 2 | snake of deathful poison Karna guards the Kuru force,~Karna
121 10, 2 | Karna guards the Kuru force,~Karna smote my chariot-driver
122 10, 2 | rest hath seen,~And while Karna lives and glories all our
123 10, 2 | Now he seeks the archer Karna and he vows his death to-day."~
124 10, 2 | If he shuns the mighty Karna battling in unconquered
125 10, 2 | deathful battle, matchless Karna rules the field!"~Sparkled
126 10, 2 | shame and anguish when from Karna's car I fled,~Redder than
127 10, 2 | war.~Onward came the fiery Karna with his chiefs and arméd
128 10, 2 | Arjun dead or lifeless Karna, pressed the Kuru-kshetra
129 10, 2 | Arjun's arrows fell on Karna like the summer's angry
130 10, 2 | the summer's angry flood,~Karna's shafts like hissing serpents
131 10, 2 | on the car,~Hold, brave Karna, until Arjun mends his over-strainéd
132 10, 2 | wild with anger heedless Karna, fiercely lowered,~Thick
133 10, 2 | the cobra dark and hissing Karna's gleaming lightning dart,~
134 10, 2 | Fierce he fell on archer Karna with his more than mortal
135 10, 2 | Little reeked the dauntless Karna if his foe in anger rose,~
136 10, 2 | if his foe in anger rose,~Karna feared not face of mortal,
137 10, 2 | sinking stuck the wheel of Karna's car!~Stood unmoved the
138 10, 2 | still the strugling coursers Karna's heavy car to move,~Vainly
139 10, 2 | Vainly too the gallant Karna leaped upon the humid soil,~
140 10, 2 | nor rejoinder gave,~Unto Karna pleading virtue Krishna
141 10, 2 | the path of virtue, mighty Karna, archer bold,~When Sakuni
142 10, 2 | with six marauders skilled,~Karna hunted Abhimanyu and the
143 10, 2 | come in shape of Arjun, Karna's fatal hour is nigh!~Stung
144 10, 2 | madness, faint but frantic Karna fought,~Reckless, ruthless,
145 10, 2 | a rock by thunder riven Karna fell among the dead!~
146 10, 3 | the shades of midnight, Karna still and lifeless lay,~
147 10, 4 | Lifeless proud preceptor Drona, Karna lifeless on the plain,~Perish
148 11, 2 | fallen, quenched is archer Karna's pride,~Doth the monarch
149 11, 4 | and Gandhara's wily lord,~Karna, proud and peerless archer,
150 11, 5 | V - OBLATION TO KARNA,~Sacred Ganga, ample-bosomed,
151 11, 5 | Offer unto him oblation, Karna was my eldest son!~Karna
152 11, 5 | Karna was my eldest son!~Karna was your honoured elder
153 11, 5 | Sun inspired his birth,~Karna in his rings and armour
154 11, 5 | us no truer stay~Than was Karna for the Kurus in the battle'
155 11, 5 | array,~Monarchs matched not Karna's glory nor his deeds of
156 11, 5 | warriors mightiest warrior Karna shone!~Woe to us! our eldest
157 11, 5 | afflicts my bosom, noble Karna loved and lost!~Monarch'
158 11, 5 | All were ours, O noble Karna, hadst thou rested by our
159 11, 5 | of the water to the noble Karna made,~And the royal dames
160 11, 5 | And the widowed queen of Karna with the women of his house~
161 End | This is peerless archer Karna, erst on earth by Arjun
162 Epi | contest between Arjun and Karna, the heroes of the Epic,
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