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Asked by: Katie Shalamov
religion and spirituality hinduismHow does Karna know Kunti is his mother?
Originally Answered: Did Karna know that Kunti was his mother before the beginning of the battle of Kurukshetra? As everybody agrees,the answer is YES, with a lot of complicated consequences. At the behest of Krishna, Kunti visits incognito Karna in his palace and reveals to him that he was her child.
Keeping this in view, who told Karna about his birth?
Krishna then went to Kunti and asked her to meet Karna and tell him that he is her first born son and the Pandavas were his brothers. Krishna left it to her to choose between Karna and her five other sons. Kunti then went to meet Karna, finds him praying.
Keeping this in view, who took Karna's kavach?
But take them in exchange. Otherwise, I will not give them.” Karna was the son of the Suryadev (Lord Sun). The Suryadev granted him a Kavach(an armor) and a Kundal(An ear-ring) as a gift to his son, Karna.
Kunti conceived her first son, Karna, from Surya, the Sun God, as a virgin, and had to abandon him. The same mantra was used by Kunti to allow her co-wife, Madri, to conceive Nakula and Sahdeva. The “fathers” of the five Pandavas were Yama, Vayu, Indra and the twin Ashwins.