He meets his biological mother late in the epic, and then discovers that he is the older half-brother of those he is fighting against. He is a tragic hero in the Mahabharata, in a manner similar to Aristotle's literary category of 'flawed good man'. He was a key warrior who aimed to kill 3rd Pandava Arjuna but dies in a battle with him during the war. Karna joined the Duryodhana's side in the Kurukshetra war. He was appointed the king of Anga ( Bihar- Bengal) by Duryodhana. Karna grows up to be an accomplished warrior of extraordinary abilities, a gifted speaker and becomes a loyal friend of Duryodhana. The basket discovered and Karna is adopted and raised by foster Suta parents named Radha and Adhiratha Nandana of the charioteer and poet profession working for king Dhritarashtra. Karna was secretly born to an unmarried Kunti in her teenage years, fearing outrage and backlash from society over her premarital pregnancy, Kunti had no choice but to abandon the newly born Karna adrift in a basket on the Ganges, in the hope that he finds foster parents. Kunti was granted the boon to bear a child with desired divine qualities from the gods and without much knowledge, Kunti invoked the sun god to confirm it if it was true indeed.

He is the son of the sun god Surya and princess Kunti (mother of the Pandavas), and thus a demigod of royal birth. Karna ( Sanskrit: कर्ण, IAST: Karṇa), also known as Vasusena, Anga-raja, and Radheya, is one of the main protagonists of the Hindu epic Mahābhārata. Yudhishthira, Bhima, Arjuna, Nakula and Sahadeva (half-brothers).

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