Kunti
To the other bank of the river, where those lamps burn across the ghastly pallor of the sands.
Karna
Am I there to find my lost mother for ever?
Kunti
O my son!
Karna
Then why did you banish me—a castaway uprooted from my ancestral soil, adrift in a homeless current of indignity? Why set a bottomless chasm between Arjuna and myself, turning the natural attachment of kinship to the dread attraction of hate? You remain speechless. Your shame permeates the vast darkness and sends invisible shivers through my limbs. Leave my question unanswered! Never explain to me what made you rob your son of his mother’s love! Only tell me why you have come to-day to call me back to the ruins of a heaven wrecked by your own hands?