It was the 15 th day of the Great War of India – the Mahabharata. The teacher of the Kuru princes - Dronacharya had laid waste to the Pandava army. The only way to eliminate him was to use his love for his son – Ashwatthama against him. The Pandavas brought forth an elephant named Ashwatthama and the mighty Bhima – the second eldest of the five Pandavas - killed him. News spread throughout the battlefield that Ashwatthama was dead. Bhima proclaimed this loudly, but Drona did not believe this, because even if it was Bhima, it was impossible to kill Ashwatthama – the chiranjeevi (the one who would live forever). In this tumultuous time, there was only one whose words could be trusted - the most honest of all men, the eldest of the Pandavas, the offspring of Dharma (righteousness) himself – Yudhishthira. Yudhishthira was so truthful and pious that it is said that his chariot would always be about two feet above the ground when he rode