Story Unfolds :
At a forest near the border of Pukeya:
From the point of view of Karna:
A young and very beautiful girl was standing tall just now before the wave of enormous amount of demon army. Alone. Yet she did not flinched a bit. She looked calm and composed. In her attitude. They were laughing on her but she was not paying any attention to their mockery. She was so calm as if she knew what to do beforehand. Let me introduce her to you all. She was Princess of powerful Pukeya state, Devi Uruvi herself. The soon to be the third wife of Karna!!!
Devi Basavi Uruvi
She failed to notice that a man of 6'3" was riding on his chariot fast. To help her. He thought she needed help. But this girl did not need any aid. From anywhere. She was alone sufficient!!! Just like her Jiji Padmavati!!! In the battlefield!!!
"Kya chahte ho tum?!! (What do you want from me?!!)" She asked the army general Trilok calmly. By lifting her big beautiful eyes to him.
Demon King Trilok
For a second Asur Raj was enchanted by her beauty. He gawked at her body lustfully and adressed Her "Hey Tribhuban Sundari, hamare bahon Main a jao. (O world's best beauty, come to my arms.)" by licking his lips sensually.
She twisted her nose in disgust and calmly added "Toh apne bahon ko mere liye sajja kar lo. (Then prepare your arms for me.)" by lifting her Bow and arrow to him.
The devil laughter Merrily. He was a man who underestimated girls. In his own life. What could this lovely girl do to him?!! She could not even give him a scratch?!! As he had 800 girls in his lavish Harem!! So he knew how to trample a fierce girl at bed!!! God!!! Men like Jayadrath and Trilok were everywhere!!! How I loath them!!!
However he was not clueless. A bit. He knew that her father wanted to get her married with the Crown Prince of Hastinapur so that he could get a ally. A powerful one. But the demon King had another plan!! Once his dearest father had died in the hands of Basav. So he wanted to abduct his Basavi. He did not know that he was fated to be killed today!! By the hands of her dear husband!!!!
One man indicated his charioteer to stop his chariot. At beside her. He had to help her. As it seemed as his duty!!
He looked at the direction of the girl whose only partial face was to be seen now. She stood on his right side!! She looked so brave that he could not resist himself to compare her with his Padma!!! He came down of his lavish chariot and looked at his right. In the same time the girl tilted her head too. To see who was he who came to her aid!!! Their eyes nested on each other for a second.
For a second nothing happened. Then an electric current ran down his spine as he had identified her. She was his dead fiance Baishali of whom he had forgotten nowadays!!! No not her!! But her look alike!! He gasped in deep shock. What was going on with him?!!
Now let me introduce him to you. He was the main male protagonist of our story Karna himself.
He looked at the direction of the sky and murmured softly in mind "Hey Madhava, yeah kya chamatkar hain (what kind of magic it is)?!!!"
He got his reply instantly. "Yeah apki Baishali ki antim ichha thi ki woh ap ke paas laut aye. Lo. Woh agayi. (This was the last wish of your Baishali to come back to you. So she came back. In your life.)" His Madava had replied his query.
He nodded his head dismissively. He did not want her back!!! What would he planned to do just now and what happened!! He did not need another comlication in his life!!! His love life was going great!! He was so happy with his Sakhi Padma and his Devi Supriya!!! He did not need her!!! But he could not tell Gods to take her back again!! Preposterous idea indeed!!!
The girl opened her mouth agape to say firmly "Kyun Anga Raj, ap bhi kya Nari ko asamrth samjhte hain?!! (Do you too think a girl incapable of fighting her own battle, Anga King?!!)"
He nodded his head slowly. It meant no!! Then he stepped back!!! To give her chance!!
She fought bravely. Against the whole demon army. Sometimes he had to help her but most of the times she was sufficient!!! He praised her in his own mind wholeheartedly!!! At least this Princess knew how to protect herself unlike most others!!! (The elaborate descriptions of war was given in my book "Uruvi".)
Bit at the end of the day they both were exhausted and wounded. She fainted due to poison infection. He had no choice other than to lift her in his arms and to left her in a safe place. He however made a blunder mistake that time. He should not allow himself to touch a virgin girl!!! The Case got more complicated when his blood had fallen on her partings and looked like vermilion on her forehead. They had to rest that day unwantedly with each other too!!! When she went back to her family they disowned her then and there by citing the reason of her spending one night with a stranger!! She came back and confronted him. Angrily.
He was then sitting on a big boulder. By clutching his head and closing his eyes. His friend was bandaging his head. He did not know that someone else also was wounded in head like him!!! The angry Princess came to him and demanded him to marry her. At once.
"Apne mere sath raat bitaya hain na. Toh apko mujhse bibah karna padega aur mujhe Apni Patni ki maryada bhi dena padega!!! (You have spend a night with me, Right?!! Then you have to marry me and make me your wife. At once.)"
Her angry outburst stoped him dead in his track.
He lifted his tired eyes to her face and asked her calmly "Kya apko Stri ka arth bhi gyat hain?!! (Do you know who can be called as a wife?!!)"
She answered him proudly "Ha. Joh santan janam deti hain. (Yes. A girl who gives birth to a child is called a wife.)"
He noticed her foolishness and sighed hard before telling "Nabin. Stri woh hota hain joh tan Aur man se apne Swami se ekatm hoti hain. Wonki har dukh sukh main sath deti hain. Kabhi unki bhagini, mata, kabhi Priyatama banke uski samast chahida purn Karti hain!!! Santan toh bad ki bishay hota hain!!! (No. You are wrong. Wife will be that girl who selflessly love you with her body, heart and soul. She has to be united in heart and soul with her husband. She has to play several roles in his life. Seldom sister, mother and even lover. So that she can fulfill his demands. The question of giving a child comes later.)" Then he turned his back to her while saying this "Ap hame kshama kijiye parantu ap ek Sut Putra ki patni banne ki yogya nahin hain!!! (I beg your pardon but you are not a bit suitable to be the wife of a social outcast like me.)" What he did not tell was that she had to suffer and to fight against the social hierarchy whole life. As a Princess she could not be able to do that!!!!
She bit her lips in anger so hard that blood came out. Then she shouted again "Krudha sarpini aur apamanit Stri se darna sikho Anga Raj. Agar tum hame apna lete toh yeah Uruvi (by patting her chest) tumhare Dasi ban ke reh jati. Seva Karti. Puja karti. Par tumne aisa nahin kiya toh ab yeahi Uruvi tumhare hi binash ke bhi karan banegi. (You have to be scared of an enraged snake and hurt woman. If you give me a chance then I will stay as a Maid in your household. I will serve you. I will worship you. But no. You don't do that. So now I will be the cause of your destruction. I promise.)"
He smiled at her response. He laughed bot on her, but on his destiny!!! He had came to her aid!! And she thought he had taken advantage of her!!! What a luck indeed!!!
She took it wrongly. She screamed in rage aloud "Aj jyse tum mere Prem ko tukdara rahe hoon, ek din tumhare bhi Prem koi tukda degi. Ek Mata apni Putra ke liye tumhare balidan degi!!!! (Now you are refusing my love one day, one day a mother for the sake of the love one son will let you die!! And you have to accept that!!)"
He smiled lifelessly. He had knew that future beforehand!!! She was right!!
"Ap has rahe ho?!! (Even after that you are smiling?!!)" She asked him. In shock.
"Agar hamare Mrityu apko itni Priya hain toh Rajkumari ham apne Pran apko dan de rehe hain. Yeah ek Daan Beer ki pratigya hain!!! (If you want my life in this way, if it is so loved by you, then I am donating it to you. It is a vow of a benevolent king to you.)" With a soft sigh he answered her too calmly.
She narrowed her eyes to his face!! His eyes were burning in tears yet he was standing tall!!! He meant it!!!
She had stopped talking and sharply turned her back. Then she go away!!! Not from his life!!! She had to come back soon!!!!
He fell down on the floor limply. Then looked at the direction of the sky and asked softly "Hey Madhava kya main hi milta hoon apko?!! (Why you get only me for such humiliation?!!! All the times!!!)"
His Madhava answered him readily "Ap Karna ho, Bade Bhaiya. Apko ek nidarshan banna hain. Anewale Yugo ke liye!!! (You are Karna, big brother. You have to be an example to the next generation!!!)"
"Main nahin banna chahta!!! Main apni Devi ke pass wapas jana chahta hoon!!! (I don't want to do that!! I just want to go back to my Supriya!!)" He lamented hard. His own heart was bleeding profusely!!! He meant that!!!
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At the small cozy room of Anga Palace:
From the point of view of Supriya:
She was lying limply on her bed. She did not want to become immobile like this way!! But yesterday she fell down on the floor and banged her head on the floor so hard that blood came out of her wound!! So her Jiji gave her the strict instructions not to move along!!
She did not want any harm to happen to the baby growing inside her Su!!!
Devi Sutanuka Supriya
This girl made a bored face. She did not a bit how she slipped down. She was thinking of him and sensed that he was in danger. The lamp flickered hard for several times. She ran to it. Then all of a sudden she fell down and banged her head!!! She did not know that at the same time her husband Karna was also wounded by Trilok!!!! At his head!!!
She let out a soft sigh and put a loving hand on her womb. The baby started to stir a little bit!!! She cherished the moment!!! In her heart!!! She loved to talk nonsense with it!!! She had done the same with her Chitra too!!! She knew that the baby loved to hear her nonsensical banters!!
But she was missing him. Truly!! She wanted to ran to him and tell him that he was going to be a father!!! Perhaps for the last time!!! She was right!! It was the last born son of Karna!!!
All of a sudden she stopped dead. She heard his pleadings clearly. In her own eardrum.
"Main apni Devi ke pass Jana chahta hoon!!!"
She got up from her bed and looked at the direction of the lamp that again had flickered hard. She ran to it and put her both palms to save it from the passing gust of wind!!!
"Madhava unke Raksha Karna!!!! Mere pran le lo!!! (Hey Lord Krishna, please save his life. Instead take mine if you want.)" She cried aloud. Unable to bear the pain.
She did not know that her husband Karna was also crying fanatically at that very moment!!!!
They did not have any idea how much they were entangled in their heart and soul!!!! That they would live and die together!!!!
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Now let me compare both the two younger Karna Sangini for you. Both loved him tenderly but they took two different path to show it!! One won his heart with her devotion!!! One of them had tried foolishly to claim on it!!! One was full of love, affection and devotion!!! Another was full of pride and arrogance!!! One of them loved and worshiped him!! Another one had loved yet hated him most of all!! One of them gave her life for him!!! One of them unwantedly take his life from him!!! One became the solace of him!! Another one a wound of his heart!! One became the cause of sustenance of his in this world!!! While the other one was the cause of his perish and decay!!! I pity for Karna!!! Perhaps that's why it was told that a woman can make a man and even break him too!!! Devi Padmavati supports him!! Supriya stays with him!! Uruvi in her arrogance destroys him!!!
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What will the impact of Uruvi's curse on Karna? What will be Supriya and her Jiji Padma's reaction to know of Karna and Uruvi secret marriage? Will Supriya forgive her deity? The answers are in upcoming chapters.
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