How True is the Narrative about Karna being a Dhanaveer?
This post was started ,because of a Recent comment from a Stalwart from the IT Industry implying Karna was his favorite character in the Mahabharatha ( MB) because of his Generous nature. It seems l made a mistake by venturing into this subject for the simple fact that, MB is by any standards the Longest Epic in the world. Nearly 1,00,000 slokas amounting to nearly 2 million words. There are at least 1000 versions about this Epic. Just the task of determining the most authentic and unabridged ve rsion in English took some time. After some basic online search, we can narrow down to two versions known for thier authenticity. One is the MB by Kisari Mohan Ganguli ( KMG ) published in 1896 which has more of the older English words and the other is Bibek Debroy's translation of the Critical Unabridged edition( meaning checked by a group of scholars) published by the Bhandarkar Institute of Oriental Research BORI ( took them nearly 50 years ). Then I made another mistake, I went and ...