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=== Attack on Pandava Camp === | === Attack on Pandava Camp === | ||
Along with [[Kripa]] and [[Kritavarma]], Ashwatthama plans to attack the Pandavas camp at night. When Ashwatthama reach there he encounters Lord [[Shiva]] in a terrifying ghost form guarding the Pandavas camp, not recognising him Ashwatthama fearlessly starts attacking that terrifying ghost with all his powerful weapons but failed to inflict a single damage upon it after which Ashwatthama starts meditating on Lord [[Shiva]] while sitting inside a pit of fire finally impressing him after which Lord Shiva appears in his true form infront of Ashwatthama and offers him a divine sword and then Lord [[Shiva]] himself enters the body of Ashwatthama making him completely unstoppable. | Along with [[Kripa]] and [[Kritavarma]], Ashwatthama plans to attack the Pandavas camp at night. When Ashwatthama reach there he encounters Lord [[Shiva]] in a terrifying ghost form guarding the Pandavas camp, not recognising him Ashwatthama fearlessly starts attacking that terrifying ghost with all his powerful weapons but failed to inflict a single damage upon it, after which Ashwatthama starts meditating on Lord [[Shiva]] while sitting inside a pit of fire finally impressing him after which Lord Shiva appears in his true form infront of Ashwatthama and offers him a divine sword and then Lord [[Shiva]] himself enters the body of Ashwatthama making him completely unstoppable. | ||
After that Ashwatthama enters the camp, he first kicks and awakens [[Dhrishtadyumna]], the commander of the Pandava army and the killer of his father.<ref>K M Ganguly(1883-1896). [http://sacred-texts.com/hin/m10/m10007.htm The Mahabharata Book 10: Sauptika Parva section 8] Ashvatthama killing Dhrishtadyumna, October 2003, Retrieved 2015-04-17</ref> Ashwatthama beats up and strangles the half-awake Dhrishtadyumna ultimately choking him to death as the prince begs to be allowed to die with a sword in his hand. Ashwatthama then proceeds with butchering the remaining warriors, including the Upapandavas, [[Shikhandi]], Yudhamanyu, [[Uttamaujas]], and many other prominent warriors of the Pandava army. Even as some soldiers try and fight back, Ashwatthama remains unharmed due to his activated abilities as one of the eleven [[Rudras]]. Those who try to flee from Ashwatthama's wrath are hacked down by Kripacharya and Kritavarma at the camp's entrances. | After that Ashwatthama enters the camp, he first kicks and awakens [[Dhrishtadyumna]], the commander of the Pandava army and the killer of his father.<ref>K M Ganguly(1883-1896). [http://sacred-texts.com/hin/m10/m10007.htm The Mahabharata Book 10: Sauptika Parva section 8] Ashvatthama killing Dhrishtadyumna, October 2003, Retrieved 2015-04-17</ref> Ashwatthama beats up and strangles the half-awake Dhrishtadyumna ultimately choking him to death as the prince begs to be allowed to die with a sword in his hand. Ashwatthama then proceeds with butchering the remaining warriors, including the Upapandavas, [[Shikhandi]], Yudhamanyu, [[Uttamaujas]], and many other prominent warriors of the Pandava army. Even as some soldiers try and fight back, Ashwatthama remains unharmed due to his activated abilities as one of the eleven [[Rudras]]. Those who try to flee from Ashwatthama's wrath are hacked down by Kripacharya and Kritavarma at the camp's entrances. | ||