Shikhamdi, Śikhaṃḍī: 1 definition

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Source: DDSA: A practical Hindi-English dictionary

Śikhaṃḍī (शिखंडी) [Also spelled shikhandi]:—(nm) a typical fighter in the Mahabharat who was supposed to be a woman in his previous birth and who had vowed to wreak vangeance on the great old warrior-Bhishm Pitamah; an impotent man, eunuch.

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