Wednesday, October 11, 2023

Mahabharata Quiz - 83

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Question- 83

What was Krishna’s reaction to the observation of Karna of odd events seen in Nature?

Answer:

That is the Ganesha moment for us to figure out Krishna's response  because Krishna did not react to those observations except by saying that Amavasya was due on Jyeshtha. It could not be so if he concurred with Karna’s version of earlier Gara Karana in Citra star. Perhaps Vyasa deliberately avoided giving us the detailed talk of Krishna regarding the change in Karana and tithi.

Krishna must have definitely concurred with Karna’s observation on earlier Amavasya and ended up saying – let us wait and watch. However, only his advice to Karna to get the war ritual done on Jyeshtha Amavasya was recorded by Vyasa in the text. Later just prior to his departure from this world, Krishna recalled the thirteenth tithi Amavasya before the Mahabharata war. Like this, somehow Vyasa has made it a point to repeat twice every controversial idea for us to have the Ganesha moment.

Failing to sense the need to think and rethink on this part of the Mahabharata, quite a few researchers have written that the war started on Jyeshtha Amavasya of Karthika, without giving a thought on further developments written by Vyasa.

One such development was about what Vyasa observed of the moon in the next phase. That phase also ended in Trayodasi tithi!

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