Oh!I am a sinner, a low fellow who murder- ed his own brother. My mind is troubled greatly at this thought. Karna's feet were so much like our mother's feet.

In the large hall, when that great outrage was committed and my anger rose, when I looked at his feet, which were so much like Kunti's feet, my wrath subsided.

I remember that now and my grief increa- ses." So saying, Yudhishthira heaved a deep sigh. Narada told him all about Karna and the curses that had been pronounced on him on various occasions.

Once, when Karna saw that Arjuna was superior to him in archery, he approached Drona and entreated him to teach him how to wield the Brahmastra. Drona declined saying it was not open to him to instruct any but a brahmana of faultless conduct or a Kshatriya who had purified himself by much penance.