वैशंपायन उवाच
दत्ते ऽवकाशे पुरुषैर् विस्मयोत्फुल्ललोचनैः ॥
विवेश रङ्गं विस्तीर्णं कर्णः परपुरंजयः ॥
सहजं कवचं बिभ्रत् कुण्डलोद्द्योतिताननः ॥
सधनुर् बद्धनिस्त्रिंशः पादचारीव पर्वतः ॥
कन्यागर्भः पृथुयशाः पृथायाः पृथुलोचनः ॥
तीक्ष्णांशोर् भास्करस्यांशः कर्णो ऽरिगणसूदनः ॥
सिंहर्षभगजेन्द्राणां तुल्यवीर्यपराक्रमः ॥
दीप्तिकान्तिद्युतिगुणैः सूर्येन्दुज्वलनोपमः ॥
प्रांशुः कनकतालाभः सिंहसंहननो युवा ॥
असंख्येयगुणः श्रीमान् भास्करस्यात्मसंभवः ॥
vaiśaṃpāyana uvāca
datte 'vakāśe puruṣair vismayotphullalocanaiḥ ||
viveśa raṅgaṃ vistīrṇaṃ karṇaḥ parapuraṃjayaḥ ||
sahajaṃ kavacaṃ bibhrat kuṇḍaloddyotitānanaḥ ||
sadhanur baddhanistriṃśaḥ pādacārīva parvataḥ ||
kanyāgarbhaḥ pṛthuyaśāḥ pṛthāyāḥ pṛthulocanaḥ ||
tīkṣṇāṃśor bhāskarasyāṃśaḥ karṇo 'rigaṇasūdanaḥ ||
siṃharṣabhagajendrāṇāṃ tulyavīryaparākramaḥ ||
dīptikāntidyutiguṇaiḥ sūryendujvalanopamaḥ ||
prāṃśuḥ kanakatālābhaḥ siṃhasaṃhanano yuvā ||
asaṃkhyeyaguṇaḥ śrīmān bhāskarasyātmasaṃbhavaḥ ||
Vaishampayana said: "When the people, their eyes wide with astonishment, made way, Karna, conqueror of enemy cities, stepped onto the vast arena — wearing his innate armor, his face lit by earrings, bow in hand, girt with a sword, like a walking mountain. Conceived in a maiden's womb, wide-famed, large-eyed son of Pritha, a fragment of the burning-rayed Sun — Karna, destroyer of hosts of foes, equal in valor and might to a lion, a bull, and a lord of elephants; in splendor and beauty like the sun, moon, and fire; tall, the hue of a golden palm tree, lion-built, youthful, endowed with countless virtues, blessed, born of the Sun."
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Here Karna reveals himself in all his splendor — and in bitter secrecy. It is significant that the scripture at once calls him "son of Pritha" (Kunti) and "a fragment of the Sun," while to everyone on the arena he is merely an unknown newcomer: the reader knows what the heroes do not, and so everything that follows is charged with tragic irony. The scripture here reveals the hand of fate: the greatest of warriors enters as an unrecognized brother among brothers, and the secret of his birth will determine his ruinous destiny. Telling too are his innate armor and earrings — signs of divine origin, visible to all yet grasped by none. Thus the scripture introduces one of the noblest and most tragic figures of the epic: the son of the Sun and Kunti, destined to be rejected and to stand against his own blood.