After all, hadn’t Arjuna vowed to kill Karna. With Krishna as his charioteer, how could he but not succeed? When Yudhishthira saw both Krishna and Arjuna enter his tent, he thought that the ...

However, Krishna instructed Arjun to kill Karna while he was weaponless as he knew that in a fair war, Arjun would not be able defeat Karna. His rationale was that killing Karna was critical to ...

"If you judge Krishna by modern ethics, you'll call him a trickster. But if you judge him by cosmic duty, you'll call him the ...

During this time, Arjuna won the hand of Draupadi in an impossible-to ... After much struggle, Bhima defeated Karna and tried his best to kill him. However, Karna was born with a kavacha and kundala ...

When Kunthidevi asked Karna not to use the Nagasthra more than once and not to kill Pandavas except Arjuna, he replied a mother would teach her son love, affection, bravery and sacrifice but you ...

Arjuna’s belligerence is full of conviction, and on many occasions, there are signs to support the notion that he is fighting to kill ... He kills Karna’s younger brother, Samgramajit ...

with Arjuna killing Karna and Rustam killing Shaghad. A Mughal-era art by Bhagvati depicting Rustam, impaled in the pit of spears, shooting Shaghad through the tree trunk in ‘Shahnamah’.

Karna agrees, relishing the prospect of a possible fight with Arjuna. He announces that he will kill his rival. Kripa then admonishes Karna for overconfidence, reminding him of Arjuna’s ...