Radha (Mahābhārata)

Radha (Mahābhārata)

Radha is the foster mother of Karna in the Mahābhārata, who is not to be confused with Radha the gopi. This is the wife of the charioteer Adiratha, who found an abandoned new-born boy, whom he named "Karna". Adiratha and Radha became his foster parents. Hence, and because Karna as an adult expressly stated his loyalty to his commoner foster mother, as opposed to his royal birth mother Kunti who had abandoned him soon after he was born, he is sometimes called "Radheya", meaning "Radha's son".


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