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class="infobox ib-character"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above notheme">Shikhandi</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Kripa_and_shikhandi.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Kripa_and_shikhandi.jpg/250px-Kripa_and_shikhandi.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="153" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Kripa_and_shikhandi.jpg/375px-Kripa_and_shikhandi.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Kripa_and_shikhandi.jpg/500px-Kripa_and_shikhandi.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1340" data-file-height="820" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Shikhandi fights Kripa.</div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header notheme">Information</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Gender</th><td class="infobox-data">Woman, later Man<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Family</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Drupada" title="Drupada">Drupada</a> (father)<br /><a href="/wiki/Prishati" class="mw-redirect" title="Prishati">Prishati</a> (mother)<br /><a href="/wiki/Characters_in_the_Mahabharata#Satyajit" class="mw-redirect" title="Characters in the Mahabharata">Satyajit</a> (uncle)<br /><a href="/wiki/Dhristadyumna" class="mw-redirect" title="Dhristadyumna">Dhristadyumna</a> (brother)<br /><a href="/wiki/Draupadi" title="Draupadi">Draupadi</a> (sister)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data">Unnamed princess of <a href="/wiki/Dasarna_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="Dasarna Kingdom">Dasarna</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">Kshatradeva</td></tr></tbody></table> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p><p><b>Shikhandi</b> (<a href="/wiki/Sanskrit_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Sanskrit language">Sanskrit</a>: <span lang="sa">शिखण्डी</span>, <small><a href="/wiki/Romanization_of_Sanskrit" class="mw-redirect" title="Romanization of Sanskrit">romanized</a>: </small><span title="Sanskrit-language romanization"><i lang="sa-Latn">Śikhaṇḍī</i></span>) is a character in the <a href="/wiki/Hindu" class="mw-redirect" title="Hindu">Hindu</a> epic <a href="/wiki/Mahabharata" title="Mahabharata">Mahabharata</a>. Born as Shikhandini, daughter of <a href="/wiki/Drupada" title="Drupada">Drupada</a>, the King of <a href="/wiki/Panchala_Kingdom_(Mahabharata)" class="mw-redirect" title="Panchala Kingdom (Mahabharata)">Panchala</a>, Shikhandi becomes male after agreeing to a sex exchange with a <a href="/wiki/Yaksha" title="Yaksha">yaksha</a>. He is the brother of <a href="/wiki/Draupadi" title="Draupadi">Draupadi</a>, the female protagonist of the epic, who is the <a href="/wiki/Polyandry_in_India" title="Polyandry in India">common wife</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Pandava" title="Pandava">Pandavas</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Shikhandi, whose <a href="/wiki/Sex_assignment" title="Sex assignment">natal female identity</a> is sometimes rendered <b>Shikhandini</b>,<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is the reincarnation of <a href="/wiki/Amba_(Mahabharata)" title="Amba (Mahabharata)">Amba</a>, a princess who was abducted by <a href="/wiki/Bhishma" title="Bhishma">Bhishma</a> at a <a href="/wiki/Swayamvar" class="mw-redirect" title="Swayamvar">svayamvara</a> and later spurned by him. The prince fights in the <a href="/wiki/Kurukshetra_war" class="mw-redirect" title="Kurukshetra war">Kurukshetra War</a> on the side of his brothers-in-law, the Pandavas, and is instrumental in causing the death of Bhishma. He also engages in combat with great warriors like <a href="/wiki/Ashwatthama" title="Ashwatthama">Ashwatthama</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kripa" title="Kripa">Kripa</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Kritavarma" title="Kritavarma">Kritavarma</a>. </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Javanese_people" title="Javanese people">Javanese</a> <a href="/wiki/Wayang" title="Wayang">wayang</a> tradition, Shikhandi is known as <b>Srikandi</b> and is born as a male, and changes into a female. She becomes the second wife of the Pandava brother <a href="/wiki/Arjuna" title="Arjuna">Arjuna</a>, Draupadi being the first.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legend">Legend</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shikhandi&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Legend"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Previous_birth">Previous birth</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shikhandi&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Previous birth"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Amba_(Mahabharata)" title="Amba (Mahabharata)">Amba (Mahabharata)</a></div> <p>In the majority of the versions of the Mahabharata,<sup id="cite_ref-Sorabji_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sorabji-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Shikhandi is described as being a princess named Amba in his previous birth. Amba was the eldest daughter of the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Kashi" class="mw-redirect" title="Kingdom of Kashi">King of Kashi</a>. Along with her sisters, <a href="/wiki/Ambika_(Mahabharata)" title="Ambika (Mahabharata)">Ambika</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ambalika" title="Ambalika">Ambalika</a>, she was won by Bhishma at their <a href="/wiki/Swayamvara" class="mw-redirect" title="Swayamvara">svayamvara</a>. After defeating several kings, including King <a href="/wiki/List_of_characters_in_the_Mahabharata" title="List of characters in the Mahabharata">Salva</a>, Bhishma returned to Hastinapura with the princesses, and presented them as brides to his younger half-brother, <a href="/wiki/Vichitravirya" title="Vichitravirya">Vichitravirya</a>, the king.<sup id="cite_ref-SacredTexts_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SacredTexts-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Before her wedding ceremony could commence, Amba told Bhishma that she had fallen in love with the King of Salva, and was not ready to marry anyone else. Hearing this from her, Bhishma sent Amba with grandeur to her desired husband. However, Salva rejected her, stating that as Bhishma had bested him at the svayamvara, he regarded him to be her rightful husband. Amba returned to Bhishma and demanded that he marry her according to <a href="/wiki/Kshatriya" title="Kshatriya">Kshatriya</a> <a href="/wiki/Dharma" title="Dharma">dharma</a>, but Bhishma declined, due to his vow of celibacy. Lamenting her misfortune, the princess decided to retire to the forest and practise austerities for the remainder of her life. As she wandered, she came across an <a href="/wiki/Ashram" title="Ashram">ashrama</a>, and informed the sages within of her plight. One of the sages happened to be maternal grandfather, Hotravahana, who sympathised with her state of mind, and told her that <a href="/wiki/Parashurama" title="Parashurama">Parashurama</a>, Bhishma's martial guru, would come to her aid. Parashurama visited Hastinapura, and commanded his disciple to marry Amba. Bhishma refused to obey him, once again citing his vow. Furious, Parashurama engaged in a terrible duel against Bhishma on the field of <a href="/wiki/Kurukshetra" title="Kurukshetra">Kurukshetra</a> for twenty-three days, employing <a href="/wiki/Astra_(weapon)" title="Astra (weapon)">astras</a>, but was unable to best him. He regretfully informed Amba of his failure to change his mind. The princess spent twelve years engaged in severe austerities, which scorched the heavens themselves. Shiva appeared to grant her a boon of her choice, and she solicited the death of Bhishma. Shiva told Amba that she would be born as a girl who would later become a man in her next life, and become a <a href="/wiki/Maharathi_(warrior)" class="mw-redirect" title="Maharathi (warrior)">maharathi</a> who would slay Bhishma in battle. Overjoyed, the princess lit a funeral pyre, prayed for the death of Bhishma, and <a href="/wiki/Self-immolation" title="Self-immolation">self-immolated</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to an iteration by <a href="/wiki/C._Rajagopalachari" title="C. Rajagopalachari">C. Rajagopalachari</a>, she resorted to a penance and received a garland of blue lotuses from the god <a href="/wiki/Kartikeya" title="Kartikeya">Kartikeya</a>, and it was foretold that anyone wearing the garland would become the cause of Bhishma's death. She went to the <a href="/wiki/Panchala_Kingdom_(Mahabharata)" class="mw-redirect" title="Panchala Kingdom (Mahabharata)">Panchala</a>, as it were a mighty empire known for its military prowess. However, no one was willing to champion her cause, fearful of antagonising Bhishma. Amba, in anger, hung the garland on the gates of King <a href="/wiki/Drupada" title="Drupada">Drupada</a> and left in agony.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sex_exchange">Sex exchange</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shikhandi&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Sex exchange"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Due to his childlessness, King Drupada propitiated Shiva, who told the king that a girl would be born to him, who in due course, would become a man. When Shikhandi was born to Drupada's queen, she was raised and dressed as a boy. When Shikhandi reached the traditional age of maturity, Drupada decided to offer her hand in marriage to the daughter of Hiranyavarman, the King of Dasharna. Shikhandi's wife soon realised that her husband was not a man, and Hiranyavarman soon caught wind of this information. Outraged, he sent a messenger to Drupada to determine the truth, and started preparations for war with the latter. Drupada insisted that Shikhandi was indeed a man. Distressed by her parents' suffering, Shikhandi left the city, deciding to fast to death. She found a forest that humans were terrified to enter, because it was inhabited by a <a href="/wiki/Yaksha" title="Yaksha">yaksha</a> named Stunakarna. She entered the premises of the yaksha, and started to perform austerities. When Stunakarna enquired regarding her practices, Shikhandi told him her tale. Feeling compassionate, the yaksha offered to exchange his sex with her for a certain period of time, to which Shikhandi agreed. Shikhandi returned to his father as a man, and informed him of this incident. Relieved, Drupada invited Hiranyavarman to send envoys to inspect the manhood of his son. A number of women were dispatched by Hiranyavarman to Drupada, who confirmed Shikhandi's manhood. Thus, the two kings were able to renew their peace.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>When <a href="/wiki/Kubera" title="Kubera">Kubera</a> visited Stunakarna's premises, the yaksha did not greet him due to her female form. Angered, Kubera cursed the yaksha, stating that the sex exchange that had been performed would be permanent. When the yaksha begged Kubera to lift the curse, the latter told her that she would regain her birth sex after the death of Shikhandi.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Kurukshetra_War">Kurukshetra War</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shikhandi&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Kurukshetra War"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Before the <a href="/wiki/Kurukshetra_War" title="Kurukshetra War">Kurukshetra War</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bhima" title="Bhima">Bhima</a> opts for Shikhandi to be the commander-in-chief of the Pandava army, as he was born to kill <a href="/wiki/Bhishma" title="Bhishma">Bhishma</a>, but <a href="/wiki/Arjuna" title="Arjuna">Arjuna</a> and <a href="/wiki/Krishna" title="Krishna">Krishna</a> prefer <a href="/wiki/Dhrishtadyumna" title="Dhrishtadyumna">Dhrishtadyumna</a> instead. Shikhandi is made the commander of one of the seven <a href="/wiki/Akshauhini" title="Akshauhini">akshauhinis</a> of the Pandava army. </p><p>On the first day of the war, Shikhandi confronts <a href="/wiki/Ashwatthama" title="Ashwatthama">Ashwatthama</a>, and both warriors wound each other several times, before withdrawing from the battle. On the seventh day of the war, he confronts Ashwatthama again, and manages to wound him on the forehead. However, an enraged Ashwatthama destroys his chariot, and wounds him badly. Luckily, <a href="/wiki/Satyaki" title="Satyaki">Satyaki</a> comes to his rescue. </p><p>On the night of the ninth day of battle, after a decisive defeat, the <a href="/wiki/Pandavas" class="mw-redirect" title="Pandavas">Pandavas</a> and Krishna visit <a href="/wiki/Bhishma" title="Bhishma">Bhishma</a>. <a href="/wiki/Yudhishthira" title="Yudhishthira">Yudhishthira</a> urges the grandsire to tell them how he may be slain, to prevent the devastating loss of Kshatriya lives. Bhishma informs them that it was impossible for him to be vanquished while he wielded arms; However, he would refuse to fight Shikhandi, since he was originally a woman, and Arjuna may vanquish him when he lays down his arms.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> So, in the next day's fight, Shikhandi rides with Arjuna, placed in the forefront of the Pandava forces. Numerous warriors of the <a href="/wiki/Kaurava" title="Kaurava">Kaurava</a> army attempt to stop the pair from reaching Bhishma. However, with the assault of the warriors of the Pandava army, Arjuna and Shikhandi push through, and reach Bhishma. Riding behind Shikhandi, Arjuna attacks Bhishma with a devastating volley of hundreds of arrows, the latter is unable to counter, with Shikhandi in the way. Bhishma falls from his chariot and his role in the war ends, giving up his life on the auspicious <a href="/wiki/Uttarayana" title="Uttarayana">Uttaryana</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On the twelfth day of the war, Shikhandi's only son, Kshatradeva, is killed by Duryodhana’s son, <a href="/wiki/Lakshmana_Kumara" title="Lakshmana Kumara">Lakshmana Kumara</a>. On the night of fourteenth day, Shikhandi is defeated by <a href="/wiki/Kripacharya" class="mw-redirect" title="Kripacharya">Kripacharya</a> and is wounded on the sixteenth day, and faints when <a href="/wiki/Kritavarma" title="Kritavarma">Kritavarma</a>'s arrow pierces his armour. After the death of <a href="/wiki/Shalya" title="Shalya">Shalya</a>, Shikhandi greatly destroys the retreating Kaurava army on the seventeenth day of the war. </p><p>Shikhandi, along with the <a href="/wiki/Upapandavas" title="Upapandavas">Upapandavas</a>, are killed by Ashwatthama on the 18th day of the war. 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