Originally posted by: supermaverick
I have a question about Krishna as well.
How can he have 16000 wives for himself? If that was a precedent followed by all powerful men, lesser men would have no wives.
Krishna's main queens were eight: Rukmini, Jambavathi, Satyabhama, Bhadra, Laksmana, Mitrabinda, Satya, and Kalindi. The first three are in order of marriage, but I don't know the order of the last five.
There was once a demon called Narakasura who was evil and kidnapped many thousands and thousands of princesses and kept them in his palace. All of those princesses, totalling up to 16,100, prayed to Shri Krishna from their hearts, asking him to release them. Narakasura also stole Dev Mata Aditi's golden ear rings, so Lord Indra went to Shri Krishna, asking him to kill Narakasura, because the demon was granted a boon that no Deva can kill him. Satyabhama, Shri Krishna's third wife, accompanied him to kill Narakasura. In South Indian accounts of the story, Satyabhama killed Narakasura, but in other accounts, it says Shri Krishna did. Anyway, Narakasura was killed by one of them, and the princesses were rescued along with Mata Aditi's ear rings being recovered.
The princesses who were kidnapped and lived with Narakasura for years were not accepted back in their homes, and to save them from public shame, Shri Krishna married them and gave them the status of his wife. Thus, they were purified.
There's another reason for Shri Krishna marrying the 16,100 princesses. In the Ram Avatar, many women (16,100) desired Shri Ram as their husband, but being one who took a vow to have only one wife, they could not marry him, but God grants the wishes of everyone, so Shri Ram said, "So be it." and the 16,100 women were reborn as the princesses Narakasura kidnapped, and thus married Shri Krishna.
"Of the 16,108 queens of Krsna, each of whom had ten sons, there is the following list of the sons of the first eight queens. By Rukmini, Krsna had ten sons: Pradyumna, Carudesna, Sudesna, Carudeha, Sucaru, Carugupta, Bhadracaru, Carucandra, Vicaru and Caru. None of them were inferior in their qualities to their divine father, Lord Krsna. Similarly, Satyabhama had ten sons, and their names are as follows: Bhanu, Subhanu, Svarbhanu, Prabhanu, Bhanuman, Candrabhanu, Brhadbhanu, Atibhanu, Sribhanu and Pratibhanu. The next queen, Jambavati, had ten sons headed by Samba. Their names are as follows: Samba, Sumitra, Purujit, Satajit, Sahasrajit, Vijaya, Citraketu, Vasuman, Dravida and Kratu. Lord Krsna was specifically very affectionate to the sons of Jambavati. By His wife Satya, the daughter of King Nagnajit, Lord Krsna had ten sons. They are as follows: Vira, Candra, Asvasena, Citragu, Vegavan, Vrsa, Ama, Sanku, Vasu and Kunti. Amongst all of them, Kunti was very powerful. Krsna had ten sons by Kalindi, and they are as follows: Sruta, Kavi, Vrsa, Vira, Subahu, Bhadra, Santi, Darsa, Purnamasa and the youngest, Somaka. For His next wife, Laksmana, the daughter of the king of Madras province, He begot ten sons, of the names: Praghosa, Gatravan, Simha, Bala, Prabala, Urdhvaga, Mahasakti, Saha, Oja and Aparajita. Similarly, His next wife, Mitravinda, had ten sons. They are as follows: Vrka, Harsa, Anila, Grdhra, Vardhana, Unnada, Mahamsa, Pavana, Vahni and Ksudhi. His next wife, Bhadra, had ten sons, of the names: Sangramajit, Brhatsena, Sura, Praharana, Arijit, Jaya, Subhadra, Vama, Ayur and Satyaka. Besides these eight chief queens, Krsna had 16,100 other wives, and all of them had ten sons each."
Sorry for such a long reply. Hope this helped.😊
Anupamaa
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