Karna and Arjuna are two valiant warriors, both important characters in the great Hindu epic, the Mahabharata. These combatants were born to Kunti, hence, were half-brothers. Yet, their ...

Karna, though being a great archer, was clearly unable to upskill himself and learn advanced fighting skills like Arjuna. And so, in the end, even though he was killed in an unfair combat, this ...

Mahabharata, also known as the fifth Veda, has many stories hidden in its womb. Some of them are in the form of short snippets and some of them are complete chapters, nevertheless each story has a ...

Lyricist-poet Anantha Sriram criticised Prabhas' Kalki 2898 AD for depicting Karna as superior to Arjuna. He allegedly said that contemporary cinema was 'distorting Hindu mythology.

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Once Karna challenged Arjuna to an archery battle, but Arjuna did not want to fight with people whose lineage was unknown. Duryodhana approached him to be his friend & made him the King of Anga.

In the Mahabharata, Karna has a one-point programme — he wants to defeat Arjuna. He is jealous of Arjuna’s prowess. So he never thinks about the costs of fighting Arjuna, and misleads ...

– Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva (Some uplift the fallen, some follow the righteous—but the wise always align with Dharma.) ... Both Arjuna and Karna were Kshatriyas of extraordinary ability.

Throughout the grand epic, the Mahabharata, Arjuna is referred to as the greatest archer alive at the time. Over the years and through several retellings, this particular claim (among many others) has ...