A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and Literature c5.1680
A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and Literature c5.1680
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SIKHANDIN, SIKHANDINĪ. Sikhandinī is said to have been the daughter of Rāja Drupada, but according to another statement she was one of the two wives whom Bhīshma obtained for his brother Vichitra-vīrya. "She (the widow) perished in the jungle, but before her death she had been assured by Parasu-rāma that she should become a man in a future birth, and cause the death of Bhīshma, who had been the author of her misfortunes." Accordingly she was born again as Sikhandin, son of Drupada. Bhīshma fell in battle pierced all over by the arrows of Arjuna, but according to this story the fatal shaft came from the hands of Sikhandin. See Ambā.