Drona is born as the first test-tube baby, Birth of Kripacharya and Drupada humiliates Drona
I was amazed to know how Kripacharya and Drona got born and would love to share it with you here. Once there was a sage named Sharadvan, also known as Gautama (not to be confused with Rishi Gautama & Ahalya) who was recognized to have been born along with the Sarkandas. He was an incredible Ascetic and had great archery skills. Seeing his deep meditation and abstinence, Indra sent an Apsara named Janpadi to divert his mind toward her.
The sage saw that eye-catching Apsara in the forest. His bow fell on the ground. Being attracted to her his body shivered. Because of his vast energy of austerities, he maintained his dignity at that time however out of temptation his seed fell on the sarkandas there. He could not realize it left that place. That seed broke into two portions out of which a boy and a girl had been born. King Shantanu of Hastinapur located these infants and out of mercy took their responsibilities. They had been named Kripa and Kripi. Gautama Rishi came to recognize his children and he privately came there and gave them their introduction to gotras or family and taught Kripa archery sastra knowledge. Later Kripa grew to be Acharya or the spiritual teacher of archery and taught those to all the Kauravas, Pandavas, and Yadavas.
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Once there was an exceptional sage named Bharadwaja, who used to exercise extreme penance. One day to operate a yajna he along with other rishis went to take a bath in Ganga. He noticed Ghutachi Apsara was getting dressed close to Ganga after she had taken a bath there. Her clothes slipped and the sage got tempted. His semen fell however sage gathered it inside a yajna Kalash pot or Dron and a boy was born out of it. Who accordingly named Drona. He learned related to agney Astra from Agnivesha.
There was a sage named Prishata, who was a pal to sage Bharadwaj. His Kshatriya son Drupada used to go to Sage Bharadwaja's hermitage and play as well as study with his son Drona. That time when both Drona and Dhrupada had been studying archery from their Guru Agnivesha, they became friends. Drupada had promised Drona that after his father's death, he would surrender his glory and his kingdom's happiness to Drona. After completion of astravidya, Drupada left the hermitage.
After the demise of Prishata, Drupada became the king of Uttarpanchala. Bharadwaja sage also died and his son Drona married Saga Gautama's daughter Kripi. Ashwathama was born to them. When he was born at that time he made the sounds of a horse for which he was named as such.
At that time Parashurama; son of Rishi Jamadagni and avatar of Vishnu was donating all his substances and wealth to others. Drona went there and begged him for some money. He also wished to study the Astra sastra expertise from great Parashuram. Parashurama instructed Drona that apart from his physique nothing was left at that time as he had already donated the whole thing to Brahmins at that time. Drona requested him to teach him all his Astra Vidya and he granted.
After obtaining complete expertise from him, Drona went to Drupada and informed him that he had come there to meet his friend. Hearing Drona calling him his friend, Drupada couldn't tolerate it and humiliated him by means of saying, how could he a king stay pals with anyone who does not owe anything? "There can not be any friendship between a poor and a rich, a fool, and a scholar."
Drona was embarrassed and he left that palace and stayed at Kripacharya's hermitage secretly. Later he was recognized by Bhishma who gladly welcomed Drona to Hastinapura and made him the Acharya of all the Kauravas and Pandavas.
Now Let me elaborate on you the cause Of Drona getting humiliated by Drupada and why Drona had decided to visit his friend's palace.
One day when Ashwathama was a child, seeing a wealthy sage son drinking milk, out of immatureness he cried to do the same. Drona used to be poor. He couldn't come up with the money for his only son to drink milk. He went in search of some Brahmins who could provide him with a cow, however, could not discover any. Then he returned to his hermitage and saw some of the other little boys at his hermitage had been tempting Ashwathama to drink atta or flour water as milk. Drona could see his son consuming the atta water gladly whilst assuming it to be milk. He was ashamed of it.
That time remembered Drupada's promise. He was already crowned as the king of Panchala. Later Drupada insulted him by displaying the variations in their status.
I have long gone via the different tales in the book it has stated as In order to instruct Drupada a lesson later Drona had sent all the Kauravas and the Pandavas to seize and bring Drupada to him. Kauravas failed to do so. However mighty Arjuna along with other Pandavas defeated Drupada and his army. As a repayment to his Guru Dronacharya, Pandavas handed Drupada to their guru. Dronacharya took half of his kingdom.
Ref: Mahabharata book Adi Parva
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