शिखंडिन् (zikhaMDin)
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Apte 1890
Englishशिखंडिन् a. [शिखंडोऽस्त्यस्य इनि] Crested, tufted.
m. 1 A peacock
नदति स एष वधूसखः शिखंडी U. 3. 18
R. 1. 39
Ku. 1. 15.
2 A cock.
3 An arrow.
4 A peacock's tail.
5 A kind of jasmine.
6 N. of Viṣṇu.
7 N. of a son of Drupada. [Śikhaṇḍin was originally a female, being Amba born in the family of Drupada for wreaking her revenge upon Bhishma
(see Amba). But from her very birth the girl was given out as a male child and brought up as such. In due course she was married to the daughter of Hiraṇyavarman, who was extremely sorry to find that she had got a veritable woman for her husband. Her father, therefore, resolved to attack the kingdom of Drupada for his having deceived him
but Śikhaṇḍin contrived, by practising austere penance in a forest, to exchange her sex with a Yakṣa, and thus averted the calamity which threatened Drupada. Afterwards in the great Bhāratī war he proved a means of killing Bhīshma, who declined to fight with a woman, when Arjuna put him forward as his hero. He was afterwards killed by Aśvatthāman].
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