Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c5.115

v1.c5.115

¹ Karṇa knows that the Pāṇḍavas will win, but withal he has already refused Kṛṣṇa, who has enlightened him as to his origin and tried to win him, by the most splendid promises, over to the Pāṇḍavas (v, 140). The great-souled hero answered him that his foster-father and foster-mother had done everything for him, that he loved them, and must bring them the ancestral offering, and so cannot but be true to the Kauravas (v, 141).