Part - 1 ( first meeting )
KARNA :- "shona(karna's brother) tommorow
we'll go to champanagari(karna's hometown) ! do neccessary arrangements for our
journey, his face bloomed with happiness. we are going to champanagari after 12
years radha maa will be so happy to see us. next day i and shona lefted
hastinapur, its a long journey so we have taken two white horses with us.
i have deeply analysed nature of horses, among all
animals horse is my favourite one i know very well how to control any horse.
"its our traditional profession and everyone
should be perfect in his profession" how can i forget this teaching given
to me by sanjay kaka( karna's uncle). Its autumn season ,all flowers and trees
are filled with greenary, fruits and green leaves ,different kinds of birds are
singing in their sweet voice, its so beautiful ! nature's gift ..
we are marching forrward with analysing this
beautiful gift of nature ! autumn... at night we use to stay at any nearby
nagar, 8 days have passed ,its 9 th day of our journey we have reached prayag !
prayag ! a place where three rivers ganga,yamuna,sarasvati meets with each
other, one thought is striking my mind "nature has taught these rivers to
live unitely without any differences but it seems that nature has forgetted to
teach this thing to humans, why humans flow oppositely towards each other with
myths of upper caste lower cast". i picked up some water in my palm and
bowed to lord surya " lord ! give me the same tolerance power that these
rivers have ! give me such knowledge which help me to understand emotions and
feelings of other persons ! don't ever let ego to touch my soul."
after horses dranked water we turned to go to our
beloved hometown. we are walking with our horses ,some womens are returning to
their village with water pots on their head, i was looking at sun suddenly
shona's horse touched his mouth on a women's neck,she exclaimed and throwed her
pot on ground, my utariya(a cloth weared on shoulder) got wet from water ,that
women got scared , and after looking at me she got more scared,she blinked her
eyes fastly for a second ! i liked her blinking of eyes ! then she kept her
head down, stood straight and is rubbing her left feet's thumb in ground,pot's
water has spreaded on her whole body,her clothes are wet ,her wet hairs are
sticked with her chin, her complexion is fair lil bit yellow. for the first
time am looking such a beautiful women..
i was about to say something to shona but one of
her friend standing with her said "oh prince ! please forgive coz of her
unawairness your clothes are wet "
"am prince ? who have said this to you ? am
karna ! because of my brothers unawairness her pot had breaked so i should say
sorry to her" !
"nhi"... but you look like a prince ? he
said with throbing heart..
"no ! am sut - putra karna ! eldest son of
adhirathji of champanagari !"
"sut-putra"? then she's also a
sut-kanya" she said by putting her hand on that women.
"sut-kanya"? i asked surprizingly
,because how such a beauty is possible in our dynasty.
"oh - yes ! sister of one of the best
charioteer of prayag 'satsyasen' " she replied.
i looked at her, up to now she didn't raised her
head up not even for a second. what could a wildish person like me can say
anything about a women who spends his whole time in learning archery and
different kinds of weapons but after looking at her am feeling like a women is
god's most beautiful creation.
"it looks like lord surya had breaked a pink
coloured pot in whole sky, what had maked him so happy ? i looked at pink coloured
sky with smile and said "shona lets go we are getting late "..
before departing from here i have picked a piece of
breaked pot... .
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KARNA AND VRUSHALI (part-2)
AFTER TWO YEARS...
KARNA :-like every morning am standing in the middle of the river to offer my
prayer to lord surya, don't know why my eyes never get satisfied with rays,my
eyes are always eager to absorve more and more rays and enormous heat from lord surya. whenever
i look at that round ball of fire sometimes i feel that am a part of same fire
. On various days i used to stare at sun for the whole day it gives me immense
pleasure i feel like i have lost myself my body ,my soul all are a part of
these rays. I picked some water in my palm and was offering it to lord surya
suddenly a voice screamed in mah ears ! someone was screaming with fear of
death " help.. | help... ". Immediately i turned back !
there was no sign of any human on this shore but i saw a hand in the waves of
river asking for help probably someone had sleeped from the shore of river. i
runned hurrily towards that shore and dived in ganga river. I was swimming in
water with my open eyes, some small small brave fishes were failurly trying to
eat my kundals. After some time i saw a human image continously sinking down in
water, when i reached near to it, that image hugged me tightly ! at the door of
death how a human becomes so helpless, at that time he/she doesnt looks at
caste,customs,prestige and dharma etc ! only looks is his/her existence !
though she is a girl then also she has holded me tightly in her arms like she's
saying to me 'please save me'. The way she's holding me it was impossible for
both of us to get out from water so first of all i freed myself from his arms
and then holded her from her hairs and fastly started to swim upward. A thought
striked my mind "the prayer to my lord remained incomplete " lord
please forgive me for this "sometimes exceptions occurs ". i came on
shore and managed to pull that unconcious girl out of water. i was surprized
after looking at her face "she is vrushali" sister of satyasen. The
memories of prayag regenerated before my eyes "her pot water had felled on
my clothes in prayag , how ashamed she had felt on that day ..
At that time vrushali
was like a flower petal hiding her face shily and now she's lookin like a
beautiful matured flower ! she is lookin like a beautiful angel surrounded by
water droplets,"her face is so beautiful". she's calm and quite like
a sleeping child !
am feeling like
mistakely i have brought out a jal-kanya from water. With her unconcious body
in my hands i standed for a while looking towards east direction,, Some
thoughts are provoking my heart " every sun-rise should be so beautiful
like this , vrushali should always remain in my arms like this,am wet and she's
also wet,time sholud stop here,our shadow in ganga water should keep dancing
like this, birds should keep singing like this..."
But in the next second
i dropped this thought, i felt shame on myself ! she's a unknown girl. Slowly i
placed her unconcious body on the shore. She remained unconcious for next half
hour . Her wet clothes are sticked from his whole body. Water droplets are
shining on her fair lotus like face. At that time her body appeared to me like
its a golden wave of ganga river. I remembered that my uthriya ( a cloth to be
weared on shoulder) is on shore, hurridly i moved there to get that when i
returned back vrushali's was breathing slowly slowly. Carefully with uthriya i
removed water droplets from her face such that she don't realise my hand touch.
She nodded his neck lil bit and slowly opened her eyes. At first she didn't
understand where was she and who I am . With feared eyes she kept looking at me
,she looked at the water droplets that were droppin from my kundals to my
sholuders and then she came to know that where is she and who I am. Immediately
she got up and sitted ,she started adjusting her wet clothes,she tried to put
her hairs back with her fingers and then kept her head down. she standed
carefully and then as it is she rolled my utariya around her body. By
indicating towards her pot that was flowin in river i said to her " Your
one pot was breaked in prayag and now here in hastinapur ganga had stealed your
second pot from you ! for whom she had stealed your pot ,ask from her " !
she looked at the
flowin pot and blushed then turned back with her face down and then walked on
stairs and departed from here . Her wet footprints were imprinted in a row on
4-5 stairs . nervously she had taken my utariya with herself , my heart is
laughing on her nervousness . I was continously looking at the pot suddenly i
heard some sound from stairs i turned back that was "bheesma
pitamah". He lovingly asked me " karna ! today why you are standing
on this shore for such a long time " . I didin't replied anything ! what i
should have said ? my prayers remained incomplete today because of a reason -
how can i say this to pitamah...
Today all citizens of
hastinapur are looking at karna with surprize who is walking without any
uthriya on his shoulder.. ..
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Part- 3
KARNA:- "dont know how duryodhana came to know about that day's incident..
may be vrushali had told his brother satyasen( charioteer of duryodhana ) and
then
satysen probably had told this to duryodhana...
After that incident my hearts condition has become so critical. Every morning
after completing my prayers whenever i look at sun it appears to me as its
vrushali's face,
most of the times i had returned empty handly completely forgetting my utariya
on the shore and then i use to send shona to get it back. shona started to ask
me " bhaiya ,
why are you becoming so oblivious " ?. i have to reply something so i said
"sometimes it feels good to forget something" ! He looked at me in
suspenc coz from last few
weeks he was regularly going on ganga shore to bring my utariya back . i use to
send shona to get my utariya so that servants don't enchat that our king is becomin
so
oblivious .
i had never disobeyed words of my father because today i have become angraaj
karna only coz of his struggles. I have brought him here in ang-palace. For me
radha maa and adhirath baba are equal to god i will always obey their words..
everyday at night i use to wash my fathers feet with rose water on this radha
maa have said
this several times " Vasu ! you are a king now , this work doesn't suits
you ! now bring a beautiful queen and give this work to her ".. i had
never replied to this so this time
also instead of replying i have changed the topic to chamanagari
village(karna's hometown).
next day shona came runningly and said " bhaiya ! adhirath baba have
called you for an urgent work ". immediately i marched towards palace,
raja duryodhana was already
sitting there. As soon as i entered there adhirath baba said " karna up to
today i have never demanded anything from you , if i demand something today,
would you fulfill it
son ??
"father, am your son karna ! father don't ask just give me order" !
"Then i want a daughter in law ! , now i'll not hear any excuses !"
"but..."
"nothing but-vut ! i have selected a beautiful charioteer's girl for you !
"father... my...!"
"now i'll not hear anyhing today am sending a priest to girl's home "
"but can't we wait for some days ??. don't know why my eyes are showin me
vrushali's image, i can't forget her so easily as whenever i'll go on ganga
shore her memories
will haunt me. There is only one way to forget her memories and that is to stop
goin towards ganga river but i can't do this . I can leave throne of ang desh,
i can leave
kavach -kundal, but i just can't stop offering my prayer to lord surya on ganga
shore.." .
"look karna, now we can't wait even for a single day because shona is
enough matured now and also we are getting older ! if you don't agree with us
then make it clear !"
what should i reply , am i becoming a barrier in shona's marriage also i can't
hurt mah parents who have beared lot of pain for me. It is said that humans
live on emotions
but sometimes to fulfill duties one has to push his emotions back. A persons
who lives his life for others is a real person indeed . i closed my eyes for a
second and
remembered lord surya and then finally i replied politely""ok if its
your wish then am ready "
"ok" adhirath baba replied by placin his hand on my head. his eyes
were shining with happiness. Suddenly i remembered hand of vrushali. I started
to forget everything with
my strong determination but why this heart is so uncontrollable , it keeps on
reminding again and again those memories that human want to forget. i liked
vrushali but now i
have to forget her . Now she can't be my wife . I turned around to exit from
here so that i could hide my emotins from adhirath baba. Even i don't
remembered that
duryodhana is sitting here.
when duryodhana saw that am about to leave he asked a question from my father
" but...but adhirath kaka, who's the girl ? what's her name ? you
hadn't told anything
about this ! "
i stopped there for a second . Adhirath baba answered " the girl is from
hastinapur ! sister of satyasen VRUSHALI "
"oh she ! well thats good , why should we give unusal disturbance to ganga
river everyday - its really a beautiful thought ! " duryodhan said by
laughing out loudly. adhirath
baba also started laughing with him ! suddenly i was surprized . oh so its
duryodhana who has planned this whole drama ! how wise he is !he know very well
that for my
acceptance it will be the best option to take my father on his side. He's not
only my friend ,he's like my real brother ! same like shona ! to doubt on his
love is like a sin . he
has made me angraaj the only reason for this was his unconditional love and i
always thoughted that he was selfish but he's not ! at the same moment i have
decided that i
will do everything for duryodhana . Now i have two real brothers one shona and
second duryodhana . Kurushresta Duryodhana who cared about such soft emotion of
a
charioteers son is now dearer to me more than my life. I'll do everything for
him .
i didn't said anything and immediately exited from there. i felt so happy my
heart was bursting with happiness. vrushali is goin to be my wife. shona was
standing there in
corridors his face was on opposite side. I went near to him and slapped hard on
his back. He said angerly "how's this foolishness " and turned back
but when he saw that its
me he pressed his tonque inbetween his teeths, joined his hands ,kept his head
down and standed like a criminal . i placed my hands on his hands and said
"shona
foolishness is over now you donn need to go again and again on ganga shore for
my utariya ."
shona was looking at me with surprize...
Got it from face book page Karna the Great
Translation courtesy Aditya
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