नोत्सहेयं पुनर् गन्तुं स्वजनं प्रति तापसाः ॥
प्रत्याख्याता निरानन्दा शाल्वेन च निराकृता ॥
उपदिष्टम् इहेच्छामि तापस्यं वीतकल्मषाः ॥
युष्माभिर् देवसंकाशाः कृपा भवतु वो मयि ॥
स ताम् आश्वासयत् कन्यां दृष्टान्तागमहेतुभिः ॥
सान्त्वयाम् आस कार्यं च प्रतिजज्ञे द्विजैः सह ॥
notsaheyaṃ punar gantuṃ svajanaṃ prati tāpasāḥ ||
pratyākhyātā nirānandā śālvena ca nirākṛtā ||
upadiṣṭam ihecchāmi tāpasyaṃ vītakalmaṣāḥ ||
yuṣmābhir devasaṃkāśāḥ kṛpā bhavatu vo mayi ||
sa tām āśvāsayat kanyāṃ dṛṣṭāntāgamahetubhiḥ ||
sāntvayām āsa kāryaṃ ca pratijajñe dvijaiḥ saha ||
'O ascetics, I cannot return again to my own people: I am rejected, deprived of joy, and cast aside by Shalva. O you who are free from taint, O godlike ones, I wish to receive instruction in austerity from you here. May your mercy be upon me.' Then he consoled the maiden with examples, tradition, and reasoning, soothed her, and together with the brahmins promised to help in the matter.
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After Shalva's rejection, Amba turns her pain into resolve for the first time. She still wavers over whom to blame -- herself, her father, Shalva, fate, or Bhishma -- but gradually comes to see Bhishma as the central knot of her misfortune. Her turn to austerity is significant: lacking any social support, she seeks strength not in the protection of kin but in tapas. Thus personal humiliation becomes a long path of retribution that will later return on the field of Kurukshetra.