स च राजा दशार्णेषु महान् आसीन् महीपतिः ॥
हिरण्यवर्मा दुर्धर्षो महासेनो महामनाः ॥
कृते विवाहे तु तदा सा कन्या राजसत्तम ॥
यौवनं समनुप्राप्ता सा च कन्या शिखण्डिनी ॥
कृतदारः शिखण्डी तु काम्पिल्यं पुनर् आगमत् ॥
न च सा वेद तां कन्यां कं चित् कालं स्त्रियं किल ॥
हिरण्यवर्मणः कन्या ज्ञात्वा तां तु शिखण्डिनीम् ॥
धात्रीणां च सखीनां च व्रीडमाना न्यवेदयत् ॥
कन्यां पञ्चालराजस्य सुतां तां वै शिखण्डिनीम् ॥
ततस् ता राजशार्दूल धात्र्यो दाशार्णिकास् तदा ॥
जग्मुर् आर्तिं परां दुःखात् प्रेषयाम् आसुर् एव च ॥
sa ca rājā daśārṇeṣu mahān āsīn mahīpatiḥ ||
hiraṇyavarmā durdharṣo mahāseno mahāmanāḥ ||
kṛte vivāhe tu tadā sā kanyā rājasattama ||
yauvanaṃ samanuprāptā sā ca kanyā śikhaṇḍinī ||
kṛtadāraḥ śikhaṇḍī tu kāmpilyaṃ punar āgamat ||
na ca sā veda tāṃ kanyāṃ kaṃ cit kālaṃ striyaṃ kila ||
hiraṇyavarmaṇaḥ kanyā jñātvā tāṃ tu śikhaṇḍinīm ||
dhātrīṇāṃ ca sakhīnāṃ ca vrīḍamānā nyavedayat ||
kanyāṃ pañcālarājasya sutāṃ tāṃ vai śikhaṇḍinīm ||
tatas tā rājaśārdūla dhātryo dāśārṇikās tadā ||
jagmur ārtiṃ parāṃ duḥkhāt preṣayām āsur eva ca ||
This King Hiranyavarman was a great lord among the Dasharnas: hard to overcome, possessing a great army, and of noble spirit. When the marriage had been performed, that girl, O best of kings, reached her youth; this was the girl Shikhandini. Shikhandin, having married, returned again to Kampilya. For some time the daughter of Hiranyavarman, it is said, did not know that this girl was a woman. But then, having learned the truth about Shikhandini, she told her nurses and companions in shame that this Shikhandini, daughter of the king of Panchala, was a girl. Then those Dasharna nurses, O tiger among kings, fell into great sorrow from grief and sent word.
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This chapter shows how the secret of Shikhandin ceases to be Drupada's private affair and becomes a political threat. Shiva's word remains the foundation for Drupada and his wife, but the human order has not yet caught up with that prophecy: marriage, family honor, and diplomatic obligations collide with the child's undisclosed nature. Drupada acts out of faith in the divine promise, yet that faith passes through fear, concealment, and the risk of war with Dasharna. Thus Amba's destiny continues to work itself out not through a direct miracle but through a chain of decisions, vows, and consequences.