An Index to the Names in the Mahabharata, with Short Explanations and a Concordance to the Bombay and Calcutta Editions and P. C. Roy's Translation c5.s3.452.4

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Kṛṣṇa told Arjuna to abandon virtue and let some man tell Droṇa that Aśvatthāman had been slain in battle. Arjuna did not approve of it; others approved of it, but Yudhiṣṭhira with great difficulty. Bhīma slew with a mace an elephant named Aśvatthāman belonging to the Malava chief Indravarman, and exclaimed before Droṇa: "Aśvatthāman has been slain." Droṇa did not believe Bhīma, but attacked Dhṛṣṭadyumna and slew the Pāñcālas (and Somakas) with the Brāhma weapon, and cut off the head of Varuḍāna, and slew 500 Matsyas, etc. The Ṛiṣyāmītra, etc., etc. (ν), appeared in the welkin and reproved Droṇa for using the Brāhma weapon against persons not acquainted with it, and called upon Droṇa to lay aside his weapons and leave the earth soon. Droṇa asked Yudhiṣṭhira whether the report about Aśvatthāman's death was true; Kṛṣṇa urged Yudhiṣṭhira to save his army by an untruth; Bhīma urged him to do the same; Yudhiṣṭhira distinctly said that Aśvatthāman was dead, adding indistinctly the word "elephant"; before this Yudhiṣṭhira's chariot had stayed at a height of four fingers' breadth from the surface of the earth; after this untruth his animals touched the earth. Droṇa became quite dejected, also after the words of the R., and beholding Dhṛṣṭadyumna before him, could not fight as before (VII, 190). Dhṛṣṭadyumna & Droṇa, the celestial weapons no longer appeared at Droṇa's bidding;