Shikhandi : in Mahābhārata, a son of King Drupada. Born as a girl & named Sikhandini whose sex was later on changed by the Yaksha Sthunakarṇa as she was born as result of her great tapasya to avenge her insult by Bhīṣma. Sri Krishna persuaded Arjūna to incapacitate Bhīṣma by attacking him standing behind Shikhandi whom Bhīṣma was oath-bound not to fight – there was no other way to put invincible Bhīṣma out of the battlefield & defeat the unrighteous Kauravas.
... Rebirth As far as I know, the births follow usually one line [ of sex ] or the other and do not alternate—that, I think, is the Indian tradition also, though there are purposeful exceptions like Shikhandi's. If there is a change of sex, it is only part of the being that associates itself with the change, not the central being. Not sex exactly [ is present in the psychic being ], but what might... woman becoming woman in the next life—except when they become animal, but even then I think the male becomes a male animal and the female a female animal. There are only stray cases quoted like Shikhandi's in the Mahabharata for variations of sex. The Theosophist conception is full of raw imagination, one Theosophist even going so far as to say that if you are a man in this birth you are obliged to ...
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