The chaste woman, the daughter of the king of Kashi, who practiced austere asceticism, who was desirous of the destruction of Bhishma even after death (i.e. in another birth) O bull of the race of Bharata, was born as the daughter of the king of Panchala and by the hand of the gods she became a male afterwards; that one, O tiger among men, who knows the virtues and vices of female-males.
तपश्चचार या घोरं काशिकन्या पुरा सती। भीष्मस्य वधमिच्छन्ती प्रेत्यापि भरतर्षभ॥ पाञ्चालस्य सुता जज्ञे दैवाच्च स पुनः पुमान्। स्त्रीपुंसोः पुरुषव्याघ्र यः स वेद गुणागुणान्॥