Junior wives of Krishna
Unnamed junior wives of Hindu god Krishna / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Besides eight principal queens (Ashtabharya),[1] the Hindu god Krishna, an avatar of the god Vishnu and the king of Dvaraka, wedded a number of captured women,[2] whose number is mentioned as 16,000 or 16,108 in different scriptures.
Krishna accepted them as his ceremonial wives upon their insistence, to save their honour from the society who saw them as slaves of the demon king Narakasura. The chief amongst them is sometimes mentioned to be Rohini. When Krishna slew Narakasura, he accepted the hand in marriage of all of the captive women upon their insistence to safeguard their dignity. After their marriage, these junior wives all chose to live in Dvaraka.