Ambika (Mahabharata)

Ambika (Sanskrit: अम्बिका, romanized: Ambikā) is the queen of Kuru Kingdom in the Hindu epic Mahabharata.

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

She asked him to sire children with the widowed queens of Vichitravirya according to the prevalent custom of Niyoga.

Vyasa had come from years of intense meditation, and as a result, looked tremendously unkempt.

[4][5] After the death of Pandu, Ambika accompanied her mother-in-law Satyavati, and sister Ambalika to the forest, and spent the rest of her days in spiritual retreat.