God of War

Karna's marriage

Vidharva,

The entire Vidharva palace was in turmoil. A huge fights and emotional blackmailing was going on among the royals. Vrushali saw Mrinalini writing love letters to Karna and also drew his painting and talking to it. She was completely lovestruck by Karna. First Vrushali tried to convince her that it was a bad idea as Karna was not a royalty but a common advisor of Kauravas court. He even did not belong to their caste. But Mrinalini was adament. She even tried to run away from the palace and Vrushali was forced to inform that to her parents. Queen Sulochana was disgusted by her daughter's action. How on earth she wanted to marry a mere suta who was nothing but a servant of those evil Kauravas. She blamed King Chandraketu for giving their daughters so much independence. Even King Chandraketu was also surprised. Mrinalini's behavior completely changed when it came about Karna. His sweet, lovable daughter became stubborn and ferociuos as a tigress when someone tried to belittle Karna. King Chandraketu had no idea what happened to her. Queen Sulochana was sure that the wretched Kauravas and Karna did black magic on her daughter. She called mane sages and even shammans but they did not find any kind of magic on her. All their rituals were proven worthless and Mrinalini's obsession for Karna was increasing day by day. Even king Chandrakeu was shocked seeing his daughter's behavior. As if he could not recognize his own kid. His sweet, caring Mrinalini suddenly changed into a ferocius woman who could rip anyone who tried to come between her and her love. Chandraketu never believed in something like black magic but seeing his daughter he was wondering if there was something called as black magic.

In between all these fiasco King Chandraketu decided to visit his kulguru Ashtavakra Muni's ashram to solve this problem. He personally liked Karna and knew that he was better than any other royal prince. But as a king he could not allow his daughter to marry a common man. So he went to Ashtavakra muni's ashram and told him about his problems.

AM (Ashtavakra Muni), 'Rajan if you don't want Mrinalini to marry Karna then why don't you try to reason with her or arrange her marriage.'

King Chandraketu, 'I have tried everything. But she threatened us that she will commit suicide if we try to force her and will curse my entire kingdom.'

AM, 'Then why don't you marry her where her heart desire.'

King Chandraketu, 'Pravu, what are saying? I am a king and only a royal can marry my daughter.'

AM, 'That means you still have those prejudices. Even after being a king you performed all the austerities. But still you retain your royal ego.'

King Chandraketu was ashamed. He knew his Guru was right. But he was confused. He even remembered the sages prediction after his daughters birth.  'Maharaj your daughetrs' have unique destiny. They will face two paths in her life, one will be their true destiny where they will get to know their actual self but the other will be disastrous not only for them but for the entire kingdom.There is someone for whom they are waiting for a long. But both of their choices will impact the humanity. So while choosing their grooms you have to be very careful. Listen to your heart and then only take your decisions.'

King Chandraketu knew that Karna was a good person and would respect his daughter after the marriage.  He also knew that Mrinalini would never be happy if she was forced to marry someone else. So he decided to talk to Sulochana and then sent a proposal to Karna and his parents. 

Queen Sulochana was extremely mad about the decision. She would never, ever tolerated this kind of behavior. If she had the power, she would have throw her impudent daughter to prison and let her rot there instead of putting her reputation at stake. But she knew Chandraketu would never allow that. Another major problem was somehow entire Aryavart came to know about her daughter's love to a commoner. Now no one would marry Mrinalini and she became a joke among all the queens of Aryavart. She knew it was the conspiracy of the Kauravas. They delibarately did some magic on her daughter to belittle their family. Those evil Kauravas and Karna were trying to pollute their royal blood. They even spread this news so that now no one would agree to marry her. But she was also queen Sulochana and for her her reputation was more important than her daughter. So when the helpless king Chandraketu wanted to send his daughter's proposal to  Karna, she angrily said, 'Yes...what can we do now? Your daughter has left no stone unturned to defame us in fron of entire Aryavart. Those who cannot even dare to look at us are now laughing openly at our situation.'