Week 10 Story: Karna the King

Guru Parshuram becoming a teacher for Karna.

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One day a farmer was walking to his farm from his hut, as he noticed something unusual at the bank of river. As we walked closer and closer to the he saw a basket with a child inside of it. The child was not crying or moving so he got close to the basket and grabbed on. He took the basket out of the river and toucher the child's forbad to see if it was still alive. The farmer heard the baby cry was relieved that it was still alive. The farmer was happy and confused at the same time because he wanted a baby, but could not have one. Him and his wife always wanted to have a child of their own, but due to some pregnancy complications she could not ever carry a child. The farmer thought his wife would be happy to see a baby, who was destined to be theirs. He rushed back to the hut. 

Farmer: Look! Look! what have I found at the farm my dear wife.

Wife: Rushed outside and saw his husband carrying a child. Whose child is that?

Farmer: Ours, I found him at the bank of river unattended. He was in the basket just floating down. 

Wife: I don't think we can just steal someone's child? What if they lost him and someone comes looking?

Farmer: Don't you see, we were destined to find him. He was floating around and could have been eaten by an animal or could have even drowned and died. We will raise him as our own child and give him all the love. 

They couple decided to keep the child and knew he had something special in him because he was wear a sun symboled vest. Looked like he had some hidden talent and came from a well known family.

Few years later:

Karna, the lost child was one the best at learning new things than other village kids. Whenever any games were played he would always win. He knew he had more talent so he asked his dad to find him a better instructor. His father was rather busy with farming and could not help him find a guru. So one day Karna decided to take things into his hands. He went to look for a guru, who was acknowledged and wanted to educated him. He went to many gurus but they all denied their services for him as they only served the kings. Karna was tired of going around asking gurus to educate him, the next guru he stumbled upon he seemed like a nice guru. His name was Parshuram.

Parshuram: Who are you child? I have never seen you around this area before?

Karna: I am the son of a king from a far away town. I have been lost for few year and now I am trying to learn skills to survive on my own and for future. Would you be willing to help?

Parshuram: Off course!  I cannot turn down a child of a king. You are welcomed to stay here until your training is done. Keep in mind I am a strict guru, who makes sure none of my students leave here without full knowledge.

Karna: He though to himself, this was a perfect plan. Yes off course. 

Soon Karna began his training and he was one of the best student Parshuram could have. He was determined, strong, and possessed all the qualities that could have been in super being. Guru was surprised that he was this talented. When all the guru's and their students had a competition on aiming  with bow and arrow or lifting heavy object and breaking it, Karna would always win. One day after almost done with the training guru decided to do some research on Karna. He figured out he was a child from a farmer and was not any king's son so he was furious. He went to go to talk to Karna and almost cursed him. Until he was stoped by Karana, who told him he was found by the farmers when he was little. Guru was shocked, he knew no ordinary men could have this good of performances. He did more research and found out that he belonged to the god of Sun. Karna was a god's child, Parshuram felt bad for doing the child wrong so he granted him a boon. Karna used it to become a king of a town Anga. 

Bibliography: Mahabharata: Karmic Revolution by Epified TV (India)

Author's Note:

Karna was a lost child, found by the farmers from a river in a basket. They decided to adopt him, but as he grew up he was hungry for knowledge. The farmer could not give him enough knowledge to survive in the forest. He went seeking for gurus to learn but all of them turned him down because he was just a warrior. Until every end he found a guru, Parshuram who taught warriors only. He was a great guru and Karna was a great student. All was well until the day where Parshuram fell asleep close to karna and a scorpion came. The scorpion bit karna, but he did not move because he did not want to disturb his guru. When the guru woke up, he saw Karna bleeding and question him of being a warrior. He knew a warrior would not have been able to sit through this incident and cursed him of losing all the knowledge he taught him, when Karna would need it the most. The story goes on how he challenged Arjuna and won all the battles. Then the Panadavas guru came in and said the fight could only be valid if Karna was king, which he could not prove so the oldest Kaurava announced him the king of Agna. I did not like the ending of guru cursing Karna and Durodhana declaring him the king so he could see Arjun loose. I used most of the similar background except changed the way he was declared king and instead of Karna getting cursed, he was given a boon.