It is the sixth story of the Karna Series. Long ago a girl born out of her loving parents, Dau Balram and his wife Rebati. Her mother hailed from Satya Yug whose father discovered a suitable groom for his only daughter in Dwapar Yug, in the elder si...
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...End of Maharathi Karna....
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At the burning ghat of Kurukshetra: On the evening of 17th day:
A beautiful lady was looking vacantly at the two burning pyres back to back. Everyone was seeing the dust, smoke and Fire. She was seeing the end of her happiness. She was seeing herself burning along with them. She was not dead physically, but mentally she was. She imagined herself there too. With her dear husband and her baby sister. Karna and Supriya. She was none but Devi Padmavati herself.
Her heart was heavy and gloomy. Her legs numb and paralysed. Her body felt numb and weak. Yet she forgot to break the eye contact with the pyres. She wanted to bade goodbye to her love of life and her dearest Su!!! She could not afford to let them go!!! Yet they were gone now!!!
She lifted her eyes to the second pyre and saw the clear picture of her baby sister Supriya!!! Sitting at midst of the dust and smoke!!! Smiling divinely as usual!!!
She heard the voice of her Supriya in her ears softly "Jiji, hame ap agya do. Chalti hoon. (Dear elder sister, permit me. I am going.)"
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Padma uplifted Her arms to stop her baby sister. Within a second the body of Supriya engulfed in the fire. She disappeared in thin air.
Padma closed her eyes tightly. She was broken. She lifted her own right hand to her head and opened her own hair. Then she dragged, her symbol of the marriage, Her Chudamani, in that hand. Then she without even looking at it threw it on the fire. Of the fire of the first pyre. That was of Karna's!!!!the gold Chudamani burnt down in a few second!!!
She imagined her husband Karna had got the last present of hers!!! He was asking her the reason!!!
She answered him truthfully "Aj se Ham bidhaba ho gaye. Aj iske koi bhi abasyakta nahin raha!!! (Now I am a widow. I don't need it anymore!!!)" Then she had added confidently "Aj Vrushali mar gayi. Padmavati jibit ho uthi. Vrish ki sath Vrushali bhi chali gayi!!! (From now onwards Vrushali is dead with her Vrish or Karna. Now I am only Padmavati again.)"
