Surya
Also known as: Sun / the Sun · Role: divine father of Karna · First appears: Book I (The Tournament) · Introduction
In Book I (The Tournament) · V. The Advent of Karna, Pritha, still unwedded, bore Karna, whose birth the Sun inspired. In Book VIII (Fall of Bhishma) · X. Fall of Bhishma, Bhishma revealed in the midnight darkness that Karna was Pritha’s son, fathered by the Sun.
Relationship record
Life events
- Pritha bore Karna, whose birth was inspired by the Sun.(Book I (The Tournament) · V. The Advent of Karna)
- As Bhishma lay dying, Karna came to him in the midnight darkness, and Bhishma revealed that Karna was Pritha's son, fathered by the Sun.(Book VIII (Fall of Bhishma) · X. Fall of Bhishma)
Book I (The Tournament) · Introduction
- child: Karna “Yudhishthir was the son of Dharma or Virtue, Bhima of Vayu or Wind, Arjun of Indra or Rain-god, the twin youngest were the sons of the Aswin twins, and Karna was the son of Surya the Sun,”
Book I (The Tournament) · V. The Advent of Karna
- child: Karna “Pritha, yet unwedded, bore him, peerless archer on the earth, Portion of the solar radiance, for the Sun inspired his birth!”
Book VIII (Fall of Bhishma) · X. Fall of Bhishma
- child: Karna “Pritha bore thee, still unwedded, and the Sun inspired thy birth,”
Book XI (Funeral Rites) · V. Oblation to Karna
- child: Karna “Karna was your honoured elder, and the Sun inspired his birth,”
Conclusion
- child: Karna “Like the fire in ruddy splendour, for the Sun inspired his birth,”
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Extracted from the original text of Maha-bharata, The Epic of Ancient India. Made with Rho MD.