Review:
I didn’t like the writing at all this book was more of Karna than Karna’s wife. A lot of the sequence are repeated ( 7-8 times) till 20th chapter and this book only have 24 chapters which made this book dragging and hard to read. Not enjoyable. After reading this book my thoughts are so changed for karna . Before, Karna was the most rightful and best human being ever existed, the one who abolished patriotism and made his place through willingness , knowledge and practice. Beautiful figure, knowledge, always justice , faithfully and Dharama person. But after this my mind changed ( he still remains the best but a Lil less than before) as I got to know he loved Draupadi even after marriage and even Draupadi loved him after her marriage too !!! I mean what!!! Karna is also the one who asked Duryodhan to bring Draupadi to the Hastinapur court and called her Wore . My heart was seriously braked by this but later on as the book proceeds it gave the reason on the side of Karna but not satisfied.
Summary:
The book starts with Pukeya princess Uruvi who is kind, good natured , beautiful and only child of Pukeya king and Queen which means she was extremely adored and loved by everyone. Kunti (Saint Pandu’s wife) was friend of Uruvi’s mother and loved Uruvi like her own daughter. Kunti was a very silent woamn and good at controlling her emotions. She had five children (Pachu Pandav) Yudhishthir, Bhima, Arjuna , Nakul and Sahadeva . Arujna the favorite disciple of Guru Dronacharya ,more than his own son Aswasthama . Then one find day karna takes part in Hastinapur’s battle field where he faught with Arjuna and won but got humiliation because he was a sutaputra (child of Radha and Adhirasta chariot of Hastinapur) . Then Duryodhan son of Kind Dhritarashtra and Queen Gandhari declared Karna as the king of Anga and that gave Karna the right to do archery and the respect he deserves. Uruvi watched the fight and got so impressed by Karna that she instantly fell in love with him .Karna went to Draupadi’s Swayamvar and get humiliated by Draupadi due to the same fact . Draupadi’s then get married with Arjuna but kunti made Draupadi marry all her 5 sons. Later on when Uruvi’s Marriage time arrived, she rejected all the proposals which made her parents worry a lot , one day her father (king of Pukeya) talks to her when she reveals that she will only marry karna and if not him she will remain unmarried. King Pukeya tried his best to convenience her (as karna is a sutaputra means low caste )but she didn’t agreed. So he made arrangements for Swayamvar and invited karna where Uruvi staight went to karna and gave him the garland and got married. This made everyone angry at the swayamvar as everyone thought Uruvi will marry Arjuna . But Duryodhan again took Karna’s side and defended him .Karna was a married man , he married Varshali years ago and they had child too . Karna was shocked by Uruvi’s decision to marry him .
Kurus (Duryodhan and his 99 siblings) always had problem with Pandavas due to Kurus uncle Sakuni who was born to destroy kuru dynasty because of her sister’s forcefull marriage and Dhritarashtra’s order to jail his parents. He made sure to always put hate in the mind of kuru’s for the Pandavas. And that’s exactly what happened. Karna and Duryodhan became best friends as karna felt the only one who gave him pride , justice and respect is Duryodhan only.
Later on Mahabharata happens between Kurus and Pandav in which kuru dynasty comes to end and karna too died in this fight. He comes to know that kurnti was her real mother and Sun is his father. That’s why he was born with kundalas and kavach. But his mother disowned him right when he was born and flowed him in River Ganga . And the end too asked karna to not kill Arjuna (means to do suicide) . Lord Indra too , father of Arjuna asked Karna for his kavach and kundala so that his son can win . Karna was know for his charity and that’s why he agreed to all this without asking questions.
Quotes:
“Face reality, my child. Do you think you will upgrade his status by marrying him? No, you will only worsen yours.”
“Gratitude is a fine quality but in Karna, it is misplaced. By associating himself with evil, he will also get corrupted slowly but surely. All his good qualities will come to nothing. His great valour, his intelligence, his generosity, his fortitude, are tainted by this one single flaw—his blind support to the wicked.”
“Although surrounded by people who love him, Karna is so alone, never satisfied. It seems that he is always searching, always wondering who his natural parents are…,’”
“Uruvi defiantly repeated that she loved Karna, even though he probably did not even know of her existence.”
“I have realized well enough now that you cannot advise a person who stubbornly believes that he is right though he knows, rationally, that he is wrong. Bhanu.”
New words :
vivacity : the quality of being attractively lively and animated.
Topple: to become less steady and fall down
Unpardonable: that cannot be forgiven or excused
Perplexity: Confusion
Heinous: utterly odious or wicked
And then, the great, noble Arjuna committed the most heinous act!’
Rating:
⭐⭐
Keep reading my lovely Bookworms 💗🫰.
( PS: All my thoughts are purely written just as a review of this book and doesn’t intend to hurt anyone’s religions feelings. )
by Ornery_Lychee9561