भीष्म उवाच
ततस् ते तापसाः सर्वे तपसे धृतनिश्चयाम् ॥
दृष्ट्वा न्यवर्तयंस् तात किं कार्यम् इति चाब्रुवन् ॥
तान् उवाच ततः कन्या तपोवृद्धान् ऋषींस् तदा ॥
निराकृतास्मि भीष्मेण भ्रंशिता पतिधर्मतः ॥
वधार्थं तस्य दीक्षा मे न लोकार्थं तपोधनाः ॥
निहत्य भीष्मं गच्छेयं शान्तिम् इत्य् एव निश्चयः ॥
यत्कृते दुःखवसतिम् इमां प्राप्तास्मि शाश्वतीम् ॥
पतिलोकाद् विहीना च नैव स्त्री न पुमान् इह ॥
नाहत्वा युधि गाङ्गेयं निवर्तेयं तपोधनाः ॥
एष मे हृदि संकल्पो यदर्थम् इदम् उद्यतम् ॥
bhīṣma uvāca
tatas te tāpasāḥ sarve tapase dhṛtaniścayām ||
dṛṣṭvā nyavartayaṃs tāta kiṃ kāryam iti cābruvan ||
tān uvāca tataḥ kanyā tapovṛddhān ṛṣīṃs tadā ||
nirākṛtāsmi bhīṣmeṇa bhraṃśitā patidharmataḥ ||
vadhārthaṃ tasya dīkṣā me na lokārthaṃ tapodhanāḥ ||
nihatya bhīṣmaṃ gaccheyaṃ śāntim ity eva niścayaḥ ||
yatkṛte duḥkhavasatim imāṃ prāptāsmi śāśvatīm ||
patilokād vihīnā ca naiva strī na pumān iha ||
nāhatvā yudhi gāṅgeyaṃ nivarteyaṃ tapodhanāḥ ||
eṣa me hṛdi saṃkalpo yadartham idam udyatam ||
Bhishma said: Then all the ascetics, seeing that she was firmly resolved upon austerity, tried to dissuade her, my son, and asked: 'What is it you mean to do?' Then the maiden said to those sages grown great in austerity: 'Bhishma has rejected me and stripped me of a wife's duty. My initiation is for his destruction, not for the good of the worlds, O you rich in austerity. Having slain Bhishma, I shall find peace — such is my resolve. Because of him I have come to this everlasting abode of suffering; deprived of a husband's world, I am here neither woman nor man. Without slaying the son of Ganga in battle, I shall not turn back, O ascetics. This is the resolve in my heart, for the sake of which all this has been undertaken.'
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Here Ambā's resolve reaches its limit. She rejects a life in which she sees neither a woman's lot nor a man's strength for vengeance, and asks not for consolation but for the power to destroy Bhishma. Shiva grants her not an instant victory but a path through a new birth and a change of body. The chapter thus binds together austerity, karma, and destiny: a powerful intention does not vanish with death but carries onward, taking the form of a future instrument. Ambā's entry into the fire becomes not flight but a terrible vow directed toward her next birth.