LORD SHRI KRISHNA AND HIS EIGHT WIVES.

SHRI KRISHNA AND HIS EIGHT WIVES. 1.RUKMINI: INCARNATION OF LAKSHMI. DAUGHTER OF KING BHISHMAK OF VIDARBHA. HER BROTHER RUKMI WAS AN ALLY OF JARASNGH.HE WISHED HIS SISTER MARRY SHISHUPAL. RUKMINI WROTE A LOVE NOTE TO SHRI KRISHNA AND BEGGED HIM TO ACCEPT HER AS HIS WIFE. SO WITH HELP OF BALRAM SHRI KRISNA ABDUCTED HER FROM VIDARBHA AND MARRIED HER. 2.SATYABHAMA; INCARNATION OF THE EARTH. (PRITHVI.) HER FATHER SHATRA JEET ACCUSED SHRI KRISNA RESPONSIBLE FOR LOSS OF JEWEL SHYAMANTAK WHICH HAD GONE IN HANDS OF JAMBAVANT. SHRI KRISHNA TRACED JAMBAVANT AND RETRIEVED THE PRECIOUS JEWEL AND RETURNED IT TO SHATRA JEET. IN TOKEN OF APPRECIATION SHATRA JEET MARRIED HER WITH SHRI KRISHNA. 3.JAMBVANTI; DAUGHTER OF JAMBAVANT THE KING OF BEARS. IN RAMAYAN WAR LORD RAMA PROMISED JAMBVANT THAT IN HIS NEXT BIRTH HE WOULD FIGHT WITH HIM. LORD KRISHNA HAD A FIGHT WITH JAMBVANT FOR 28 DAYS. THEN JAMBVANT REALISED THAT HE WAS NONE OTHER BUT THE INCARNATION OF LORD VISHNU. HE MARRIED HIS DAUGHTER WITH HIM. 4.KALINDI: DAUGHTER OF SUN GOD. SHE LIVED IN PENANCE WITH A VOW TO MARRY SHRI KRISHNA ONLY AND NONE ELSE. ON KNOWING THIS SHRI KRISHNA ACCEPTED HER AS HIS FOURTH WIFE. 5.NAGNA JEETI: DAUGHTER OF KING NAGNA JEET OF KOSHAL. SHRI KRISHNA TAMED AND CAPTURED SEVEN FIERCE BULLS WHICH WAS A CONDITION FOR HER MARRIAGE. HE WON HER HAND. 6:MITRA VRINDA; HER BROTHER WANTED HER TO BE MARRIED WITH DURYODHAN. BUT SHE LOVED SHRI KRISHNA. 7LAKSHMANA; AT A SWAYAMVARA SHRI KRISHNA WINS THE ARCHARY EVENTS AND MARRIED HER. 8.BHADRA; A COUSIN OF HIM BUT SHE SELECTED SHRI KRISNA AT A SWAYAMMVAR AND THEY WERE MARRIED. MOREOVER SHRI KRISHNA SAVED AND GOT RELEASED FROM CAPTIVITY 16100 PRINCESS OF DIFFERENT KINGS HELD AS CAPTIVE BY NARAKA SUR, AT PRAGYA JYOT ASSAM. NARKASUR HAD A BOON THAT HE COULD NOT BE KILLED BY MAN, ANIMAL OR BY OTHER MEANS EXCEPT BY HIS MOTHER. SATYABHMA INCARNATION OF PRITHVI IN ROLE OF A MOTHER HAD A FIERCE FIGHT AND KILLED NARKA SUR. THE FREED 16100 PRINCESS HAD NO STATUS. THEY DID NOT WANT TO GO BACK TO THEIR KINGDOMS. SOCIETY WOULD NOT ACCEPT THEM. TO PROTECT THEIR PRIDE AND STATUS SHRI KRISHNA MARRIED WITH ALL OF THEM AND THEY LIVED IN HIS PALACE AT DWARIKA. ROHINI WAS THE CHIEF OF THE 16100 ADOPTED WIVES OF SHRI KRISHNA.