The Person Who Is Alive from Centuries…
By: You Must Note
Tags: Indian Mythology, Blogging, Indian, Mahabharata, Blogger

You all must now be familiar with the Hindu Yugas if not you may go to our mythology label and read the post by the name “How will the world end according to Hinduism”. Just imagine that if it was possible for you to be ‘Amar’, how would you feel? Some of you might find this to be very interesting or amazing to live not for many generations but for many of the Hindu yugas or 12000 divine years.

So, now you might be thinking that all these could be only possible in movies or comics and not in the real life. But this is true that actually a person is alive for more than or around 5000 years. Now you all might be thinking that it is impossible and it’s just a fake story for a person to have a life span for more than 5000 years. But it is actually true that man is alive since Treta Yuga. You all must have listened his name as he was the part of the great battle ever fought in the world between Pandavas and Kauravas which lasted 18 days which battle today is known by the name ‘ Mahabharat ‘. Now you all must be thinking that who is that man and the answer to this question is ‘ASHWATHAMA’. There is a long story behind the reason of his becoming a Chiranjeevi or Amar. So before telling you the story you should know who is Ashwathama and how did he became a ‘Chiranjeevi’?

Ashwathama is the son of Guru Drondacharya and the grandson of the sage Bharadwaja. Ashwathama is a Maharathi who fought on the Kaurava side against the Pandavas in the Kurukshetra battle or Mahabharat. He was one of the great warriors of Mahabharat who like other Kauravas crossed all the limits of misconduct. Being the son of a great guru Drondacharya who taught and acknowledged both the Pandavas and Kauravas with immense knowledge of Weapons , Ashwathama too had a great knowledge of weapons.

Ashwathma was one of the best friends of the Dhritarashtra’s son Duryodhana who had crossed all the possible limits to get crowned as the next Emperor of the great land Hastinapur. Since he was small with the help of his uncle ‘ Shakuni’ tried to kill the Pandavas who were going to be the right and actual next rulers of the Hastinapur. But this thing wasn’t never convinced or agreed by Duryodhana. And when in the future when the elder one of the Pandavas, ‘Yudhishthira’ became the Emperor of the Indraprasth, Duryodhana with the help of his uncle who was an expert at ‘Chausar’ (a game played at that time between two people) invited Yudhishthira to play Chausar. By his foul play made the Pandava lose and forced Pandava’s wife Draupadi to take off her clothes in front of all the people present there. This made the Pandava go furious and then lead to the great battle ‘ Mahabharat’. In all this scenario being the son of a guru, Ashwathama supported the evil conduct of the Kauravas which made him a great part of the Mahabharat.

The answer to this question is that when the whole battle had came to an end and Duryodhana had died, in order to take the revenge, in the night Ashwathama went and killed the sons of the Pandavas while they were sleeping, thinking that they were the Pandavas. This made the Pandava furious and they went on to kill him. But when they approached Ashwathama, in order to protect himself, he aimed the strongest weapon, Brahmastra towards the womb of Arjun’ son Abhimanyu’s wife Uttara to kill the next emperor of the future world and finish the whole family of Pandava. This made Lord Krishna furious and after saving the womb of Uttara took off the ‘Mani’(all the power and healing source of Ashwathama)which was situated on the forehead of the Ashwathama and cursed him to stay alive in the worst condition of his body and health until the Kaliyug ends.

So, this was the story behind being immortal of the Ashwathama, who in the present world is said to be still alive and asking for help here and there across the whole world.