MISCONCEPTION:- KARNA WAS CAPABLE TO KILL GHATOTKACHA WITHOUT VASAVI SHAKTI.

It's just a sample of my little effort to expose the false accusations of some hijacked Karna fans. Please read this post carefully


>> Vyasa’s statement -   "Vyasa said, By good luck, Phalguna liveth still although he had encountered Karna in battle. Indeed, Karna had kept his dart, desirous of slaying Savyasachin, O bull of Bharata's race, by good luck Jishnu did not engage in single combat with Karna. Each of them in that case challenging the other, would have shot his celestial weapons on all sides. The weapons of the Suta's son would have been destroyed by Arjuna. The former then afflicted by the latter, would certainly have hurled Indra's dart in that battle. O Yudhishthira! O foremost one of Bharata's race, (if this had come to pass), then great would have been thy grief. O giver of honours, by good luck the Rakshasa hath been slain in battle by the Suta's son."

 http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/m07/m07180.htm

 As per Ved Vyasa Karna would have thrown the dart on Arjuna only once all his weapons got consumed, destroyed & baffled. Vyasa could see the future as he was the writer of the epic.

 >>Indra’s statement -  And if, maddened by wrath, thou hurlest this dart, while there are still other weapons with thee, and when thy life also is not in imminent peril, it will fall even on thyself.'

 http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/m03/m03308.htm 

As you can all see Lord Indra told Karna that if he hurls the Vasavi dart while he has other weapons in his arsenal it will turn on him instead. Such weapons are intelligent. So the Bhargava, Brahma, Naga weapons could not have saved Karna against Ghatotkatcha.

 >>Karna himself accepting he will only use it when his life is in danger - 

 Karna answered, 'As thou directest me, O Sakra, I shall hurl this Vasavi dart only when I am in imminent peril! Truly I tell thee this!'"

 http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/m03/m03308.htm 

Anyone who can read should know that Karna himself vowed that he would only use the Vasavi dart if his life is endangered. Clearly Karna did not have any other choice other than to use the Vasavi dart on Ghatoatkatcha because Ghatotkatcha had backed him into a corner. Ghatotkatcha was defeating Karna.



CREDIT:- SHANTAM SHARMA