Mahaabhaarat
Dronaachaarya (2) 1.
Drone's Personal Life Drone in Mahaabhaarat War After Bheeshm fell down on the 10th day of the Mahaabhaarat war, the 11th day, Drone was appointed as Chief Army Chief of the Kaurav army. Drone changed the Bheeshm's tactics of war. he planned to capture Yudhishthir, though he underestimated the strength or cleverness of Krishn. However, he could not capture Yudhishthir by his own tactics, but was able to kill Drupad. At this Dhrishtdyumn vowed to kill Drone. The 12th day, Drone killed a lot many soldiers but still victory was far from sight. Duryodhan blamed Drone for failing in performing his duties - to capture Yudhishthir. So next day, the 13th day, he called for a special meeting and asked his best commanders to keep Arjun away from the battlefield, because he was the only one who knew how to break through his Chakra Vyooh. He gave the task of organizing this to Jayadrath. Drone was sure of his victory as no one knew to break through the Vyooh except Arjun and Krishn, and Arjun would not be in the battlefield itself. When Yudhishthir came to know about the Chakra Vyooh, he looked for Arjun, but Arjun was nowhere to be seen, so he consulted his other brothers and Abhimanyu. Abhimanyu said - "I can enter the Chakra Vyooh, but I don't know how to come out." Then Yudhishthir asked Bheem, Nakul, Sahadev to follow Abhimanyu and he himself was supposed to stay outside the Vyooh. As Abhimanyu entered the Vyooh, Jayadrath ordered to quickly close the Vyooh entrapping Abhimanyu inside the Vyooh, and his uncles locked out the Vyooh. (What happened next? To read it in detail see Abhimanyu). Abhimanyu fought with a great bravery with seven great warriors like Duryodhan, Shakuni, Karn, Jayadrath, Ashwatthaamaa, Kripaachaarya, and Dronaachaarya. But for how long? Soon he lost his Rath, Saarathee, weapons and got severely wounded. He fell down. Drone said to other warriors not to attack on a defenseless warrior, but Jayadrath didn't listen to this. He hit him with his foot and killed him with his sword. It was the black day in Mahaabhaarat war. When Arjun heard about the death of his son, he vowed to kill Jayadrath by sunset of next day. When Jayadrath heard about Arjun's vow, he got frightened and got ready to run away from the battlefield. Drone and Duryodhan consoled him and assured him of his safety. So next day, the 14th day, Drone again created a Vyooh in which he kept Jayadrath in the center. Arjun could not reach him the whole day, but at last he killed him before sunset (for detailed description read Jayadrath). Duryodhn again blamed Drone for not taking care of Jayadrath, therefore he should step down. Drone promised to end the war next day by killing Arjun. Death of Drone Krishn came to know about Drone's planning of killing Arjun, so He consulted Paandav and suggested the way to win Drone. He said - "Drone once promised to himself that he would stop fighting if his only son Ashwatthaamaa was killed in the battlefield." Ashwatthaamaa was invincible. So Krishn somehow had to make Drone believe for that, that "Ashwatthaamaa was killed". Yudhishthir would have to tell this lie to him. As Yudhishthir never told any lie, Drone would believe him. So he will stop fighting and Dhrishtdyumn will get a chance to behead his head." So next day, the 15th day, Drone started attacking Arjun. Arjun also fought with his Guru very bravely. Yudhishthir was hesitant to lie to Drone, so Bheem acted promptly. He killed an elephant with the same name and Yudhishthir informed Drone that Ashwatthaamaa was dead, without any clarification that it was not his son but was an elephant. Immediately Drone dropped his arms, and Dhrishtdyumn beheaded him and he was dead. At the end of the day when Ashwatthaamaa heard of the death of his father, he got very furious and vowed to kill Dhrishtdyumn the next day to avenge his father's killing. My
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by Sushma Gupta
On 5/27/04
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Modified on 10/21/04