Drona and his wife Kripi had a single son, Ashwatthama, who was born with a divine jewel fused to his forehead and cried with a sound like a horse's neigh, giving him his name.
Ashwatthama and Arjuna clashed with Brahmastras after the war. Ashwatthama directed his weapon at the Pandavas' unborn heir, and Arjuna was forced to withdraw his own at Krishna's command.
Ashwatthama launched the Brahmastra at the unborn Pandava heir after the war. Krishna intervened, cursing Ashwatthama to wander immortally and reviving the child Parikshit in Uttara's womb.
Ashwatthama stole into the sleeping Pandava camp on the war's final night and strangled Dhrishtadyumna to death with his bare hands, avenging Dhrishtadyumna's killing of his father Drona on the battlefield.
In the same night raid, Ashwatthama slaughtered the five Upapandavas — Draupadi's sons by each of the five Pandava brothers — as they slept, mistaking them for the Pandavas themselves or killing them in blind fury.
Ashwatthama is one of the seven Chiranjivi, cursed by Krishna to wander the earth for eternity with an oozing wound where his forehead jewel was torn away — his immortality not a gift but a punishment for the slaughter of sleeping children.
Ashwatthama entered the Pandava camp on the war's final night and murdered Draupadi's five sons — the Upapandavas — as they slept. This act of vengeance for his father Drona's death left Draupadi bereft of all her children.
Ashwatthama fought at Kurukshetra as one of the Kaurava army's fiercest warriors, wielding the Narayanastra against the Pandava host and surviving to the war's bitter end as one of only three Kaurava survivors.
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