As i have read in some blogs these days because of TV serials and movies. The great Pandavas are considered as cowards and evil souls like Duryodhana and Karna are considered as great men. Bhima is shown as a fat, greedy and short tempered warrior.
But Bhima is not as such. Bhima is the second hero of Mahabharata after Arjuna. He is extremely strong and is not afraid of anyone. He defeated Karna many times during Mahabharata war and forced him to retreat chariotless. Karna once defeated Bhima by hiding in his chariot. On 17th day of Mahabharata war Karna insulted Yudhistira. Then Bhima vowed to kill Karna. Bhima fought with Karna and made him unconscious. He was about to cut of the tongue of Karna but Shalya stopped him and told him Arjuna has vowed to kill Karna so leave him. Thus Bhima spared Karna. In TV serials they did not show this scene. This is available in Mahabharata translation by Kisan Mohan Ganguli.
Comparing Bhima and Duryodhana. Bhima was much stronger than Duryodhana but Duryodhana has more skill in mace than Bhima. Bhima is the protector of remaining pandavas including Arjuna during burning of wax house.
1 comments:
Respected Vamsi, what you have posted is one side of the coin. Other than Arjuna everyone chariot was Broken in the war. So a Warrior becoming Chariotless is part of war at that time.
Thats why Karna on 17th day of war Recommended to carry a huge supply of Chariots before facing Arjuna. And thats why every Maharathi had huge chain of chariots as backup.
And to your next point
nobody would dare to say Arjuna ,Bhima cowards. Even Yudhistira was a Maharathi. Now who passes such remarks has to be ignored.
Coming to your next point when Karna retreated you are saying that he was a coward.
Its a part of strategy , A coward will never comeback to war but Karna came back again and again. Even the great Arjuna was made unconsious on several occassion but was he not a supreme warrior. Even Arjuna retreated from Karna on 16th day of war when he used Bhargavastra.That doesn't mean he was a coward it was a smart strategy.when one batsmen is attacking the captain obviously places defensive fields.
And only two occassion when two great warrior failed to retreat they were killed once Abhimanyu and second Karna.
And you said Karna was no matched to Bhima. Karna said to Salya on 17th day that other than two Krishnas nobody can stand before him when he is rage with the intention to kill.
That incident was after Bhima was restrain to cut Karnas tongue .After that defeat Karna massively defeated all the pandavas excluding Arjun and he injured Bhimsen so badly that Salya said to Karna ,now seeing Bhima in such terrible condition you have surely brought your doom in the form of Arjuna.
And please don't stick to only 14th day please gothrough 15th,16th and 17th day and you will find Karna defeated Bhima many times.
And Karna never used Bhargavastra,Shakti weapon,Brahmastara and even any highly potential weapons on any Pandavas other Arjuna.Becs his job was to stop Bhima not to killed him.
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