Drona

He is the connective tissue of the epic's first half — every warrior on both sides is his pupil — and the registry held the pupils and not him. His feud with Drupada, which the corpus could already have supported since it holds both Drupada and Dhrishtadyumna, is not written here: the treatments consulted give the teaching, the marriage, the command and the fall, and not the feud.

Children

• Ashwatthama

Domains

• military instruction
• warfare

Relations

• spouse: KripiReciprocated in-batch.Reference treatment: Drona married Kripi, the sister of Kripa. (secondary)
• ally: DuryodhanaReciprocated in-batch.Reference treatment: Drona was Supreme Commander of the Kauravas. (secondary)
• student of: BharadvajaThe kind is 'student-of' and not a filiation. The tradition also makes Bharadvaja his father; the treatment consulted states the gurukul and not the paternity, so the edge states the gurukul.Reference treatment: Drona studied in the gurukul of Rishi Bharadwaja. (secondary)
• teacher of: ArjunaNon-symmetric, so nothing is written onto the pre-existing Arjuna record.Reference treatment: Drona was the Acharya, teacher, of the Kuru princes. (secondary)
• teacher of: YudhiṣṭhiraSame.Reference treatment of Drona as Acharya of the Kuru princes. (secondary)
• teacher of: DuryodhanaIn-batch. Recorded separately from the alliance, because the tragedy of the figure is that the two are the same list of people.Reference treatment of Drona as Acharya of the Kuru princes, who are both houses. (secondary)

Sources

• Drona is the archery master who taught both Kuru houses and commanded the Kaurava army, husband of Kripi and father of Ashwatthama.: Reference treatments of Drona, of Kripa and of the Kurukshetra war. (secondary)