page_title: Upapandavas
section_title: Death
hierarchical_section_title: Upapandavas / Death
caption_attribution_description: Pictorial label used for the advertisement and sale of bales of cloth and individual fabric lengths; printed on paper. An illustation from the Mahābhārata: Arastthaman propitiates Śiva before making a night attack on the Pandava camp. Designed in India and printed in British Isles for export to India. This is episode of Saupatika-parwa drawn by Artist Daswant and Mahesh.
context_page_description: In the Hindu epic Mahabharata, the Upapandavas, also known as Pandavaputras, Draupadeyas or Panchakumaras are the five sons born to Queen Draupadi from each of the five Pandavas. They are Prativindhya, Sutasoma, Shrutakarma, Shatanika and Shrutasena. They fought the battle on the side of the Pandavas, and all were Atirathis as said by Bhishma but not much is said in the Mahabharata about the brothers.
  The Upapandavas had an elder sister Suthanu.
  After the Kurukshetra War, Suthanu was married to Satyabhama's eldest son Bhanu. They had many other brothers from their fathers. 3 of the other brothers took part in the War - Abhimanyu, Ghatotkacha and Iravan. All 8 of these brothers perished in the War.
  The Upapandavas, along with Abhimanyu, also battled demon king Alambusha, on the 9th day.
  On the 11th day, they together encountered and were defeated by Vrishasena, the son of Karna.
context_section_description: On the last night of the war after Duryodhana's death and Kaurava defeat, Ashwathama gathered the only other surviving Kaurava warriors - Kritavarma and Kripacharya, and attacked the Pandava camp on the 18th night of the Kurukshetra war. He killed Dhrishtadyumna, Shikhandi, and many other prominent warriors of the Pandava army while they were sleeping.
  Ashwatthama killed all the five Upapandavas during their sleep. In some versions of the story, he believes them to be the five Pandava brothers; in others, he purposefully attacks the Pandavas' heirs in order to hurt the Pandavas emotionally.
  Ashwatthama was eventually cursed by Krishna for his heinous act of mercilessly the young Upapandavas and the in-womb Parikshit, to be immortal with incurable bruises and ulcers.
  In the Jataka tales version of the Mahabharata, Parikshit's mentors included both Sutasoma. Prativindhya, Shrutakarma, and Shatanika at least(who even in Sauptika Parva is shown as wounded not dead) have definite longer lives in Jatakas.
  Ashwatthama killed the sons of all Panadavas when they are sleeping after the win of war against Kauravas.
caption: Ashwatthama propitiates Shiva before making a night attack on the Pandava camp
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