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Karna's wife... 😊
VRUSHALI, also spelled VRISHALI , is a Hindu female first name. The name is mentioned in the ancient Mahabharat epic as the wife of famed warrior Karna.
Very little is known about Vrushali, except that she was from the charioteer caste and chosen by Karna's adoptive father Adhiratha, also of the same caste.
According to Udyog Parva Bhagavatayana, in shloka #1011, where Karna declines Lord Krishna's offer to detect from Duryodhana's camp, the warrior states :
Naama vai vasusheneti kaarayaamaasa maadhava I
Bhaaryaashchoda mama praapte yauvane tatparichhaat II
Unfortunately, M.N. Dutt's Mahabharata translation has been incorrectly rephrased as "On attaining my youth too did I marry wives according to his (Adhiratha) choice."
Grammatically speaking however, the word "bhaaryaa" in Sanskrit means "the wife" or "one of the wives".
In addition, in the Stree Parva's Jalaprandanikaparva, when Gandhari laments the massacre on the battlefield, she devotes four lenghtier shlokas (#10, #11, #12 and #14) to one sole woman whom she identifies as Karna's wife, albeit with no name. Gandhari does state the name of the couple's two sons, Vrishasena and Sushena.
Although the names Supriya and Prabhavati have recently surfaced on the internet as possible co-wives of Karna, they appear nowhere in any reputed translation of the Mahabharata. Interestingly, a far later version of Karna's story appears in Tamil literature, where the wife is named Ponnaruvi. Since Karna was crowned the King of Anga by his emperor and best friend Duryodhana, and both Anga and Hastinapura are in North India, it is unlikely that members of this Sanskrit-speaking area would give their children Dravidian names.
The relationship between Karna-Vrushali is beautifully mentioned in the famous novel Mrityunjaya. A/c to the novel Mrityunjaya, Supriya is mentioned as Karna's second wife who was Bhanumati's (Duryodhana's wife) best friend. There's a new famous novel based on Karna's wife, 'The Outcaste's Queen' in which Princess Uruvi is mentioned as Karna's wife.
VRUSHALI, also spelled VRISHALI , is a Hindu female first name. The name is mentioned in the ancient Mahabharat epic as the wife of famed warrior Karna.
Very little is known about Vrushali, except that she was from the charioteer caste and chosen by Karna's adoptive father Adhiratha, also of the same caste.
According to Udyog Parva Bhagavatayana, in shloka #1011, where Karna declines Lord Krishna's offer to detect from Duryodhana's camp, the warrior states :
Naama vai vasusheneti kaarayaamaasa maadhava I
Bhaaryaashchoda mama praapte yauvane tatparichhaat II
Unfortunately, M.N. Dutt's Mahabharata translation has been incorrectly rephrased as "On attaining my youth too did I marry wives according to his (Adhiratha) choice."
Grammatically speaking however, the word "bhaaryaa" in Sanskrit means "the wife" or "one of the wives".
In addition, in the Stree Parva's Jalaprandanikaparva, when Gandhari laments the massacre on the battlefield, she devotes four lenghtier shlokas (#10, #11, #12 and #14) to one sole woman whom she identifies as Karna's wife, albeit with no name. Gandhari does state the name of the couple's two sons, Vrishasena and Sushena.
Although the names Supriya and Prabhavati have recently surfaced on the internet as possible co-wives of Karna, they appear nowhere in any reputed translation of the Mahabharata. Interestingly, a far later version of Karna's story appears in Tamil literature, where the wife is named Ponnaruvi. Since Karna was crowned the King of Anga by his emperor and best friend Duryodhana, and both Anga and Hastinapura are in North India, it is unlikely that members of this Sanskrit-speaking area would give their children Dravidian names.
The relationship between Karna-Vrushali is beautifully mentioned in the famous novel Mrityunjaya. A/c to the novel Mrityunjaya, Supriya is mentioned as Karna's second wife who was Bhanumati's (Duryodhana's wife) best friend. There's a new famous novel based on Karna's wife, 'The Outcaste's Queen' in which Princess Uruvi is mentioned as Karna's wife.
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