The tale of Shivanya

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Ad- gudiya was our daughter.

Ma- you have a daughter and you never told me. I have never seen her with you.

Su- even mitr never told us that he have a sister.

Ad- because he himself didn't knew about her.

Su- how? Why?

Ma- Adhirath plz tell everything in detail.

Ad- Before coming to hastinapur we used to live in a village near kuru boundaries. We were happy couple but even after 20 years of marriage we didn't had a child of our own. Radha was very depressed because of the taunts of the society. She did every pooja and ritual to get a child but couldn't get. Suryadev is our ishtdevta so, one day when we were doing suryapooja we heard a crying sound of a child. We saw that a basket was floating in the river Ganga and the sound was coming from that basket. I jumped in the river and took the basket. There we saw that a boy with golden armor and earrings was crying and the girl was wiping the tears of the boy and consoling him. When the children saw us the boy stopped crying and put hands on the girl as if protecting her and the girl started smiling looking at us. They were the most beautiful children we have ever seen and the beauty of the girl was indescribable. We searched for the parents of the children but we didn't found them. The basket was filled with lotuses which indicated that someone abandoned them. We were angry on the cruel parents of the children who abandoned their just born babies in the raging water of Ganga. After seeing the children radha picked them and immediately the armor of the boy dissolved in his body. We were amazed by this. We saw that a sun mark was glowing on the right arm of the girl and after radha picked her it stopped glowing. The children were looking at us curiously and the motherhood suppressed in radha erupted and she decided that they will grow as her children. We were very happy because lord has blessed us with children after 20 years of our marriage. They were just new born not even one month old when we kept a naming ceremony for them to keep their names. Just before 2 days of naming ceremony at night we heard a crying sound and we woke up. We saw towards the cradle where kids were sleeping only to find our daughter missing. We again heard the crying sound which was of our daughter coming from outside of our house. We hide karn and rushed out only to see a horrible scene. 🥺🥺🥺

R- 🥺🥺🥺

(Listening to Adhirath Kunti was very guilty and was weeping silently. But when she heard the last sentence of Adhirath and seeing them crying she got scared for her daughter)
G-(angrily)How can a mother be so cruel to her own children by abandoning them in river.

Gandhari couldn't believe that karn who is like her elder son has such a cruel fate.

Su- so, karn is not a sut by birth but just because of his cruel parents he have to bear the injustice by society.

Ma- why are you both crying? What was your daughter doing outside of the house at middle of the night? What have you seen?

Ad- Outside we saw our daughter crying in the hands of a demon. We didn't knew what to do we beg him to leave our daughter but he flew from there. We followed him but it was a rainy night and we lost him and our daughter. For many days we tried to find her but when I return empty-handed radha would be very depressed and will cry all night. Karn was only support which kept us sane. So, I decided to leave the village and come to hastinapur and start a new life with karn as our only son because we were afraid that someone will snatch karn from us. We never told about this to karn because we were afraid that he will be disappointed in us for not saving his sister and will leave us. We hid about his sister from him. He never knew that he was born with a twin sister.
But Radha how did he got to know now?

R( crying) - It's all my fault Arya. Today after you left --

Flashback:

Radha is chopping vegetables in the verandah of her house. Just then savita who was her neighbor came

Savita- Radha!!! Radha!!! I am very happy today.

R- arre savita aaj tum itni prasann kyu ho?

Savita- Radha meri putri ne kal ek putri ko janm diya hai abhi uska patra aaya. Mein aur arya usse milne jaa rahe hai to tum hamare ghar ka khayal rakhna

R- ye toh bahut khushi ki baat hai tum jao yaha ki fikar mat karna.

Savita leaves.

Radha thinks- aaj meri gudiya hamare sath hoti toh uska bhi vivah ho gaya hota vo bhi Maa ban chuki hoti parantu mein abhagan jo bhagwan ke diye hue Vardan ko na sambhal saki.
Radha rushes in the house crying and takes out some clothes and toys of her daughter which she preserved till date and hug them and said-
"Apni Mata ko maaf kar dena putri jo tumhari raksha na kar payi"
Just then she heard glass falling sound and looked toward the direction only to see a shocked karn standing there.
He came towards Radha and held the clothes from her hands and asked with shivering voice .
Karn-Radhama, yeh ap kya keh rahi hai? Aap kaunsi putri ki baat kar rahi hai? Aapka toh keval ek putr hai aur vo main hu haina radhama. Toh yeh vastra kiske hai.

R(crying)- Hame maaf kar dena putr humne tumse satya chupaya. Tumhari ek judwa behen bhi hai.
And then she narrated all the story about how they got them as their children and how the demon took away their daughter.
She was crying hysterically and Karn was numb. The people whom he thought as his parents are not the one who gave him birth. Till today he had the identity of sutputra but now he don't know who he is. And on top of that he had a sister whose existence he was unaware of. He was very vulnerable and just ran from the house.
Radha tried to stop him but for the first time he didn't listened to his mother and mounted his horse and rode towards the jungle.

Flashback ends

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