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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!
