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Ashwatthama strangled the half-awake Dhrishtadyumna as the prince begged to be allowed to die with a sword in his hand, ultimately choking him to death. Ashwatthama proceeded with butchering the remaining warriors, including Shikhandi, Uttamaujas, Yudhamanyu, Upapandavas and many other prominent
The Pandavas spread the rumour of Ashwatthama's death. Hearing the terrible news, Drona approached the eldest Pandava Yudhishthira in disbelief, who confirmed that Ashwatthama had been killed, but murmured that it had been the elephant named Ashwatthama; the latter part of his reply was overshadowed by conches of Pandava warriors. Thinking his ...
Because Drona has the Brahmanda astra, Krishna tells Yudhishthira that Drona would give up his arms if his son Ashwatthama were dead. Yudhishthira lies to Drona. Which disheartens Dronacharya, and he lays his weapons down before being killed by Dhrishtadyumna to avenge his father's death and satisfy his vow.
Ashwatthama propitiates Shiva (top) before making a night attack on the sleeping Pandava camp (bottom). The Sauptika Parva (Sanskrit: सौप्तिक पर्व), or the "Book of the Sleepers," is the tenth of eighteen books of the Indian Epic Mahabharata. Sauptika Parva traditionally has 2 parts and 18 chapters, as does the critical ...
After learning of the deceptive way his father was killed, Ashwatthama became filled with wrath and invoked the celestial weapon called the Narayanastra, against the Pandavas. When the weapon was invoked, violent winds began to blow, peals of thunder are heard, and an arrow pierced every Pandava soldier.
A Palestinian-American family are still in shock after they learned that they lost 42 family members spreading over three generations in Gaza in a single day.. Tariq Hamouda lives with his wife ...
Arjuna, out of nobility, did so; Ashwatthama, however, out of anger, refused to recall the astra and rather directed it to Uttarā's womb to kill the unborn Parikshit in an attempt to produce some level of damage to his opponents, but Krishna intervened and saved the child. Ashwatthama was made to surrender the gem on his forehead and cursed by ...
Families in Gaza also started to return to their homes, with Israel’s retaliatory offensive to the Hamas attack having killed around 47,000 Palestinians and forced about 90 per cent of the ...