Ear Piercing or Karna Vedha is an ancient ceremony performed on both male and female in many countries.This is seen across cultures in almost all continents where human civilization inhabited.

In India, this is called as Karna(ear) Vedha(piercing) ((Sanskrit: कर्णवेध) and is one of the Shodasha Samskaras (16 ceremonies) performed on a human between birth and death.

Common between male and females, it is intended to open the inner ears of the child for receiving sacred sounds. This rite has deep mystical and symbolic significance. It is believed that merely hearing sacred sounds has merit in that it cleanses sin and nurtures the spirit.

In China, this Acupuncture and Acupressure is done at a particular point on ear and it is believed to cure or prevent asthma.Behind the ear lobe there is a natural, small microscopic depression which contains nerve endings linked with diseases like bronchial asthma, cough and tuberculosis.

Chinese science of acupuncture states that the root cause of some diseases lies in the subtle regions of every organ in the body.When that area is punctured, the related disease is eliminated. Study of this science was done and recorded in the Vedas much earlier and the sanskar of piercing the ear lobes was already implemented on both genders of kids.

The metal (like gold or copper) earrings are believed to help in maintaining the flow of electric current in a human body. It is also believed that ear piercing helps in maintaining the regularity in the menstrual cycle of a girl.This part of the ear is the intuitive, Third Eye, or psychic point. It is very important that only gold, and not silver, be worn here on the ear lobe. Gold, combined with an amethyst or emerald (which are both traditionally regarded as very spiritual stones), will have an added positive effect on the function of intuition.

Ayurveda researcher and surgeon on ancient India, Susruta (6th century BC) says, “Ears of a child should be bored for protection (from diseases in his opinion) and decoration.” He explicitly prescribes the boring of ears for preventing hydrocele and hernia.
Susruta gives a very cautious procedure of the ceremony. He says that the ceremony should be performed in the sixth or seventh month, in the bright half and on an auspicious day. After the preliminaries the child should be put on the lap of the mother or the nurse. Then the child should be fondled and persuaded by means of toys. Now the surgeon should pull the ears with his left hand and bore them slowly at the natural holes which are visible in the sunlight. If the ears are tender they should be pierced with a needle, if stiff with a probe. After boring oil should be applied to the ears by means of a cotton thread or bougie.

Father of Western medicine, Hippocrates, wrote about ear piercing and earring wearing around 470 BC as a remedy and treatment for menstrual problems. Galen also wrote about the same thing. In ancient times, if there was a deficiency in energy or chi, gold earrings would be placed in a pierced acu-point for stimulation. Silver earrings were used if there was excessive energy.

Duryodhana is one character in the Mahabharatha who is routinely portrayed as a villain without any redeeming features. Even his famed friendship with Karna comes under a shadow if one were to ask if he supported his ‘lowborn’ friend only to get back at the Pandavas. How authentic was Duryodhana’s love for Karna? Did he really treat him as an equal? Did he really love him as a brother?

But Duryodhana, who bent rules to suit his interests, who took advantage of every opportunity, however unfairly, was one of the few husbands in the epics who did not look at his wife with a suspicious eye, despite circumstances that could have forced him to do so.

Karna and Duryodhana’s wife, Bhanumathi, were good friends. They often enjoyed a game of dice together. Once the two of them were playing a game in Bhanumathi’s chamber with great concentration. Karna was playing very well and it looked like he would win the game soon. He was looking forward to taunting Bhanumathi after his victory. However, Bhanumathi suddenly got up from her seat. Karna thought she was trying to run away from the game and put out a hand to make her stay. By accident, his hand pulled at Bhanumathi’s waist belt and it broke, scattering pearls to the floor. Seeing Bhanumathi’s shocked and terrified expression, Karna turned around to see who she was looking at.

It was Duryodhana, standing by the door and watching the two of them. Karna was aghast. Would his friend misunderstand him? He’d not realised that Bhanumathi had stood up on seeing Duryodhana, the king and her husband, enter the chamber. She was going to greet him, not run away from the game! But in his haste, he’d pulled at her waist belt! What would it look like to Duryodhana? Would he fly into a rage and admonish him for behaving improperly with his wife? Would Bhanumathi have to face his wrath, too? To their surprise, Duryodhana calmly walked into the room and asked Bhanumathi if he should just pick up the pearls or string them together for her as well.

Duryodhana trusted his wife and his best friend so much that it did not occur to him that either of them may have been unfaithful to him. It is said that nothing in the world is inherently evil, and it is the way we think about it that makes it so. Duryodhana and the Kauravas are characterised as the very manifestation of evil, with the Pandavas being their anti-thesis. But in this situation, it was Duryodhana who did not have a shred of evil in his mind!