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Karṇa
कर्ण sa கர்ணன் ta
Character of epic Mahabharata; son of Surya and Kunti
A life on the record,
dated by its sources.
Roles, not beliefs
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Family
The family of Karṇa
Parents, consorts and children as the accounts give them. Choose a consort to see the children the stories give the two.
Accounts differ about a god’s family. Where they name different parents, the tree sets them side by side instead of choosing one.
The family as a list · 14
Kinship in an account 13
What this means
Parentage as a named source tells it. Not an independently established biological relationship, and different accounts disagree.
Does not imply an independently established biological relationship · agreement between accounts · marriage as a legal institution · exclusivity, or a single canonical pairing · shared parentage in every account · descent from the same generation in a single tree
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
- child of (father) Adhiratha character in the Mahabharata
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child of (child) Kuntī character from Indian epic Mahabharata - child of (mother) Radha adoptive mother of Karna
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child of (child) Surya solar god in Hinduism - parent of (child) Banasena Son of Karna, in Mahabharata
- parent of (child) Vrishaketu figure from the Mahabharata epic
- parent of (child) Vrishasena Son of Karna
- partner of (spouse) Wives of Karna wives of the Karna, a character in Hindu epic, Mahabharata
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sibling of Arjuna central character of Indian epic Mahabharata -
sibling of Bhīma Great Kshatriya(Rajput) warrior of Mahabharata - sibling of Nakula character of Indian epic Mahabharata
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sibling of Sahadeva character of Indian epic Mahabharata - sibling of Yudhiṣṭhira character from Indian epic Mahabharata
Family 1
What this means
A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.
Does not imply a shared religious affiliation
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Texts
In the texts
Works this figure appears in. A work’s date is the source’s, not this figure’s.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
14 statements on this record
- 14 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
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Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Computed Worked out here, not stated by any source: 1 collection membership. Each is marked where it is shown.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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