Duryodhana enquires of Bhishma the reason of his refusal to strike Sikhandi; The Sayamvara of the daughter of the rules of Kasi; Bhishma ravishes the maidens before all the kings; Defeat of all the kingrs by Bhishma; The eldest daughter Amva repairs to Shalya ; Shalya’s refusal to accept Amva; Amva leaves Shalya’s city; Amva repairs to an asylum of hermits; Her resolution to practise asceticism; The ascetics dissuade her; Amva meets with Hotravahana; Hotravahana advises her to see Jamadagni’s son; Arrival of Rama’s friend Akritavrana to the hermitage; Amva introduced to Akritavrana; Akritavrana indicates Bhishma as the person upon whom Amva’s vengeance should light; Arrival of Rama at that asylum; Hotrahana introduces Amva to Rama; Amva relates her history; Rama’s pledge to slay Bhishma if the latter refuses to take the maiden; Arrival of Rama at the bank of the Saraswati; Bhishma goes out to meet Rama; Rama urges Bhishma to take the maiden; Bhishma’s refusal and his reason; Bhishma’s speech to Rama; Rama summons Bhishma to fight naming Kurukshetra as the field; Bhishma accepts the challenge; Rama and Bhishma meet on Kurukshetra; Ganga comes to Bhishma and urges him not to fight; Bhishma’s refusal to obey her; The commencement of the combat between Rama and Bhishma; Rama made insensible; Bhishma’s self-reproach for striking his preceptor; Continuation of the battle; Bhishma made insensible; Bhishma removed from the field by his charioteer; Bhishma regains his senses and comes back to the encounter; Rama is overthrown from his car; Rama regains consciousness; Continuation of battle; Bhishma baffles Rama’s fury darts; Bhishma’s charioteer slain; Bhishma overthrown from his car; The Vasus support him in mid-air; Ganga holds the reins of Bhishma’s steeds; Ganga dismissed by Bhishma; Bhishma joins the combat; Rama deprived of consciousness; Alarming omens; Rama rises up and renews the combat; The Vasus appear to Bhishma in a dream and put him in remembrance of the parswapa weapon; The last day’s encounter; Bhishma resolves to use the praswapa weapon; celestial voices in the sky; Narada dissuades Bhishma from using the praswapa weapon; Rama’s ancestors appear on the scene and induce him to desist from the fight; Rama refuses to obey them; They come to Bhishma; Bhishma’s refusal to obey them; They return to Rama and make him desist; Rama acknowledges his defeat and tells Amva to do as she pleased; Rama’s departure from Kurukshetra; Amva’s devotion to ascetic penances; Ganga curses Amva; Mahadeva appears to Amva and gives her the boon she asked, via, change of sex in next life; Amva ascends the funeral pyre; A daughter is born to king Drupada by his first wife; Drupada and his wife conceal the sex of the child Drupada’s daughter (represented as a son) is married to king Hiranyavarman’s daughter; Hiranyavarman informed by his daughter of the imposture; Hiranyavarman’s resolution to punish Drupada for the imposture; Embassies from and to Hiranyavarman; Hiranyavarman marches with a large army against Drupada; Drupada’s daughter Shikhandini enters a forest for suicide; She meets a Yaksha named Sthunakarna; The Yaksha’s promise to serve her; The exchange of sexes; Sikhandi’s return to his father’s city; Hiranyavarman sents witnesses to ascertain Sikhandin’s sex; Hiranyavarman retires with his army from the vicinity of Drupada’s city; Kuvera discovers Sthuna’s folly and curses him to remain a woman till Sikhandin’s death; Duryodhana enqiures of Bhishma and Drona &c., as to the period within which each of them could annihilate the Pandava army; Bhishma mentions a month as the period; Drona does the same; Kripa mentions two months; Aswatthama mentions ten nights; Karna mentions five days; Bhishma ridicules Karna Yudhisthira enquires of the period within which he could annihilate the Kaurava army; Arjuna mentions a second as the time; The march of the Kaurava army to the field; The march of the Pandava army to field;
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