Ashwatthama

vitalStatus is 'living'. The tradition holds that he is cursed to wander the earth until the end of the age, and he is the epic's one genuinely unfinished figure; recording him as deceased would contradict the story the corpus is indexing. TYPE CORRECTED UNDER TEST: he was first authored as 'demigod', on the strength of the sources making him a combined incarnation of Shiva, Yama, Kama and Krodha. npm test rejected it as tier-classification drift — this corpus computes the tier from descent, and both his parents are mortals in this batch, so the pipeline computes 'mortal' and an authored 'demigod' is a divergence the suite counts. The corpus's own rule wins; the incarnation claim stays in the lifecycle, where it is a statement about him rather than a claim about his parentage.

Parentage

• parent: Drona
• parent: Kripi

Domains

• warfare

Relations

• ally: KripaReciprocated in-batch.Reference treatment of the three who return to Duryodhana after the defeat. (secondary)
• ally: KritavarmaReciprocated in-batch.Reference treatment of the three who return to Duryodhana after the defeat. (secondary)
• protected: JayadrathaIn-batch and directional.Reference treatment: Ashwatthama stands against Arjuna several times, trying to prevent him from reaching Jayadratha. (secondary)
• fought against: ArjunaNon-symmetric rather than 'enemy', so nothing is written onto the pre-existing Arjuna record.Reference treatment: Ashwatthama stands against Arjuna several times. (secondary)

Sources

• Ashwatthama is the son of Drona and Kripi, a combined incarnation of Shiva, Yama, Kama and Krodha with a gem in his forehead, last commander of the Kauravas, who kills the Pandava army in its sleep after seeing an owl kill sleeping crows.: Reference treatments of Ashwatthama, of Drona and of the night raid. (secondary)