Amba is the eldest daughter of the Raja of Kasi. Amba is also the other name of `Parvathi` or `Shakti`. Bhishma is said to have taken her with her two sisters from the Swayamvara to be the wives of Raja Vichitravirya. But on the day of marriage, Amba informed that her father had already engaged her to the Raja of Salwa. She also requested that she might be sent to him. On her appeal Bhishma sent her to the Raja of Salwa, where she informed him how she was taken away. On hearing this, the Raja denied to accept her as his wife and drove her away by his servants. She took shelter into the jungle and perished miserably.

Again, as per the Mahabharata, Amba was born again as a man named `Shikhandi` and became the cause of the death of Bhishma, the author of all her misfortunes.

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