Janamejaya said : What was that secret which the god of hot rays did not give out to Karna? Of what nature were that coat of mail and those two ear-rings? Orighteous one, where did that armour and those two ear-rings of his spring from? O being whose wealth is devotion, I am curious to learn all this. Therefore relate to me all this.
जनमेजय उवाच किं तद् गुह्यं न चाख्यातं कर्णायेहोष्णरश्मिना। कीदृशे कुण्डले ते च कवचं चैव कीदृशम्॥१ कुतश्च कवचं तस्य कुण्डले चैव सत्तम। एतदिच्छाम्यहं श्रोतुं तन्मे ब्रूहि तपोधन॥