Karna said: Who are you, that, showing so great an affection for me, are addressing me thus? Tell me, O god, if you desire, who you are in the shape of a Brahmana.
कर्ण उवाच को मामेवं भवान् प्राह दर्शयन् सौहृदं परम्। कामया भगवन् ब्रूहि को भवान् द्विजवेषधृक्॥