[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879) › c5.894 # A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and Literature c5.894 A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and Literature c5.894 - **Language:** English ### [c5.894](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.894) KRIPĀ, KRIPĪ. Wife of Drona and mother of Aswatthāman. The sage Saradwat or Gotama so alarmed Indra by his austerities that the god sent a nymph to tempt him. Though she was unsuccessful, two children were found born to the sage in a tuft of grass. King Śantanu found them and brought them up out of compassion (\*kripā\*), whence their names, Kripa and Kripā. The children passed as Śantanu’s own. Drona was a Brāhman and Śantanu a Kshatriya : the myth makes Kripī a Brāhmanī, and so accounts for her being the wife of Drona. The Vishnu Purāna represents them as children of Satya-dhriti, grandson of Saradwat by the nymph Urvasī, and as being exposed in a clump of long grass. - [Previous: c5.893](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.893) - [Next: c5.895](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.895) - [Up: c5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5) ## Cites (1) - [Viṣṇupurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.894](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.894) · Pramāṇa