Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c7.3066

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Sūrya assured Kuntī that even though a child was born to her from him, that will not affect her virginity and departed. Kuntī delivered a son in due course of time in secret. She locked up the child in a box and floated it in the Yamunā. An old charioteer called Adhiratha picked up the child from the river and brought it up as though he was his own son. That boy grew up to become the famous Karṇa. (Ādi Parva, Chapter 112).