It was known that Drona would never be defeated until his son, Ashwatthaman, was still alive. Bhima was desperate to defeat Drona so he thought up a plan to fake the death of Ashwatthaman and trick Drona. I think this idea was quite cowardly of Bhima to do but I guess thats what it took to win. Brim got an elephant named Ashwatthaman and killed it. After doing so he ran to the king's gates screaming that Ashwatthaman had died. Drona did not believe this at first so he asked his truth teller Yudhishthira if this was true. Three times Yud told Drona that Ash had died but he whispered "the elephant"afterwards. Drona did not hear that part and Yud had his chariot put on the ground, instead of flying, as punishment for lying.Drona lost the ability to use his special weapons so he was unable to fight Bhima. the general of the opposing army came to fight Drona but ended up just cutting his head off. However, before Drona's head was cut off his spirit left his body.
I thought this story was very tragic in a sense because the lesser person won. By Bhima resorting to trickery he lost respect and still is not considered a better fighter in my mind even though he won.
Source: http://ouocblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/pde-mahabharata-death-of-drona.html
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