Story of Shikhandi

Shikhandi was born as a girl but was raised as a boy. He considered himself a man.
Pitamah Bhishma considered him a woman which was his birth gender.
And Sri Krishna considered him a man which was his current gender.

This shows a conflict between two thoughts. One which was old and was living in the past and one which accepted the present.
We have to consider that certain things were still taboo at that time.

Now it depends upon us who want our thoughts to be pinned down like Bhishma or move forward like Krishna.


On the twelfth day of the war, Shikkandi’s only son, Kshatradeva, is killed by Duryodhana’s son, Lakshmana Kumara. On the night of fourteenth day, Shikandi is defeated by Kripacharya and is wounded on the sixteenth day, and faints when Kritavarma's arrow pierces his armour. After the death of Shalya, Shikandi greatly destroys the retreating Kaurava army on the seventeenth day of the war.

Shikhandi, along with the Upapandavas, are killed by Ashwatthama on the 18th day of the war. Dazed, Shikhandi is killed in a sword fight with Ashwatthama when Ashwatthama, Kripacharya, and Kritavarma attacked the Pandava camp at night.

According to Devdutt Pattanaik, Ashwatthama kills Shikhandi's lover in front of him; in other versions, it is Shikhandi's partner who is butchered.






Sources: Devdutt, Wikipedia, Wisdom Library.

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