Ambalika

Ambalika (Sanskrit: अम्बालिका, romanized: Ambālikā) is the queen of Kuru Kingdom in the Hindu epic Mahabharata.

[2] Along with her sisters, Amba and Ambika, Ambalika was taken by force by Bhishma during their svayamvara, the latter having challenged and defeated the assembled royalty.

She asked him to father children with the widowed queens of Vichitravirya, according to the prevalent custom of niyoga.

She is the grandmother of Pandavas – Yudhishtira, Bhima, Arjuna, Nakula and Sahadeva, who were the central characters of the epic.

[8][9] After the death of Pandu, Ambalika accompanied her mother-in-law Satyavati, and sister Ambika, to the forest, and spent the rest of her days in spiritual retreat.