Thread:Valeth/@comment-118.70.177.74-20170801015239/@comment-4981064-20170802164916

Could you qoute the part cleary state Karna superiority? the closest I see in those link "O son of Pandu! I regard the mighty car-warrior Karna as thy equal, or perhaps, thy superior! With the greatest care and resolution shouldst thou slay him in great battle" but with the use of the word "perhaps", it's not definite proof of Karna superiority, other parts are just people praising Karna, which Arjuna himself does not lack of.

and Karna did not begged Arjuna, he just asks Arjuna act in accordance with dharma, which in this case, is to not slay him dishonorably when he chariot wheel stuck, and Arjuna would have agreed too, if not for his charioteer listing out every single time Karna have violated the dharma, and enraged Arjuna into continuing the fight.

that is how it went in most versions, I would have hard time finding a version in which it didn't happens.

and indeed, in BORI CE, the Kauravas as pretty much pure evil, most of the good side of the Kauravas was judged to be interpolation.

and about BORI, basically, it a version that take in account all version, they collected hand-written manuscripts from all over India, divide them into into 2 major categories, Northern Recension, which is scripts found in Northen India and Northern Southern, which is scripts found in Southern India, they compare writing style, consistency between the 2 to find which is interpolation, event that is the same in retained, events that differ, they go with what present in the Kashmiri manuscript, which is the oldest underwent the least modification, events that exist in one Recension but not other is entirely removed. one interesting fact is that the script in the Southern Recension are very well-written with beautiful poetry, while the Northern Recension scripts read like a fanfic, and majority of interpolation that BORI foud is in the Northern Recension.