Ashwathama or Drauni is the child of guru Drona and the grandson of the sage Bharadwaja. Ashwatthama is a strong Maharathi who battled on the Kaurava side against the Pandavas in the Kurukshetra War. Ashwatthama is considered as symbol of one of the eleven Rudras and one of the seven Chiranjivis. Alongside his maternal uncle Kripa, Ashwatthama is accepted to be a living overcomer of the Kurukshetra War. The misleading plot of his reputed demise prompted the decapitation of his lamenting dad Drona, who was crippled while contemplating for his child's spirit. Ashwatthama was delegated as the last president of the Kauravas in the Kurukshetra War. Heavyhearted and rage, he butchers the vast majority of the Pandava camp in a solitary night hostile. Ashwatthama administered the Northern Panchala being subordinate to the leaders of Hastinapura.
On the tenth day of the battle, after Bhishma falls, Drona is named the preeminent leader of the armed forces. He guarantees Duryodhana that he will catch Yudhishthira, yet then he over and again neglects to do as such. Duryodhana insults a lot him, which incredibly enrages Ashwatthama, causing grating among Ashwatthama and Duryodhana. Krishna realizes that it was unrealistic to vanquish a furnished Drona. In this way, Krishna proposes to Yudhishthira and the other Pandavas, in the event that Drona were persuaded that his child was executed on the war zone, at that point his distress would leave him powerless against assault. Krishna incubates an arrangement for Bhima to slaughter an elephant by the name Ashwatthama while guaranteeing to Drona it was Drona's child who was dead. At last, the trick works (however its subtleties shift contingent upon the form of the Mahabharata), and Dhristadyumna guillotines the lamenting sage.