Episode 8…..
The furious faminines……
While the men at the helm of affairs were pondering, the
women were not letting it go. They decided that their job was not confined to
perform aarti and put tilak whenever their husbands left for fighting. The
imbibed powers they possessed were at stake. They thought it was high time to
utilise it.
Karna’s wife Vrishali came to Kunti’s tent. Draupadi was
also asked to join. Draupadi and Vrishali complimented the supreme deeds of
Karna and Arjuna in the midst of the Kurukshetra war. Kunti highlighted the
supremacy of the two warriors. Last but not the least, the super humanness
exhibited by them is not willing to kill each other.
“Both Karna and Arjuna cleverly proved to Krishna that
their decision not to fight against each other was in the lines and spirits of
the sacred Upadesha so brilliantly given on the battlefield,” Kunti explained
to Draupadi and Vrishali. As Draupadi had hidden admiration for Karna’s
capability, she just nodded. Vrishali too consented as she knew the ill
influences of many curses around Karna in spite of his having an edge over Arjuna.
Kunti the great mother and more so mother-in-law she was,
now summoned Subhadra to her tent. After all, it was Subhadra who had lost her
brave young son Abhimanyu in the war. Her feelings were at stake at this
juncture. The unwilling Subhadra was forced to toe the line being told that
with Arjuna being alive, Subhadra can have any number of Abhimanyu’s in the future.
Kunti strongly believed that it was an appropriate time to disclose that Karna was
her eldest son. She invited the wives of all her sons to keep them informed
about the secret of Karna’s birth. The women were stunned and taken aback.
Karna’s wives were delighted as they were no longer to be labeled as the wives
of a Sutaputra. The dreaded title was gone once for all.
Under the shrewd leadership of Kunti, whose main motto
was to save and put together all her sons and inherit back the crown of
Hastinapur, the women vowed to prevail upon the men including Duryodhana to
draw the curtains. They all rushed to Gaandhaari.
Episode 9 to be continued………
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