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Kripaachaarya Jee is a Mahaabhaarat character. He is in the lineage of Maharshi Mudgal and his daughter Ahilyaa. Maharshi Mudgal had twins - a son named Divodaas and a daughter named Ahilyaa. Ahilyaa was married to Maharshi Gautam. Gautam's son was Shataanand (Raajaa Janak's Purohit). Shataanand's son was Satyadhriti, and his son was Shardwaan.

Kripaachaarya was the son of Muni Shardwaan and the Apsaraa Urvashee. Once Muni Shardwaan saw Urvashee and his semen dropped on a bush of Moonj (a type of grass which is used to make ropes and mats to sit up on). It caused to born one son and one daughter. Urvashee left for Swarg leaving those children on earth. Raajaa Shantanu saw these children lying on a Kush Aasan along with a Kamandal nearby. That is how he could know that they were some Braahman's children. So he brought them home and gave them to his Raaj Guru to bring them up. He called them Kripaa and Kripee because he got them from Braahman's Kripaa (kindness). Later when Kripaa grew up he became the Kul Guru of Kaurav-Paandav families. 

He fought in Mahaabhaarat war too from Duryodhan's side. In the last he surrendered and went for Tap. He is immortal.

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