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Ashwatthama

Ashwatthama: who Ashwatthama is in the Mahabharata, in plain words.

The son of Drona, who carries out the night massacre of the Pandava camp and is cursed to wander in pain.

See the whole story in eighteen books and the other characters.

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A retelling in our own words of a story told in many ways across India and Asia. Tellers differ on many episodes. It is not a scholarly translation.