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Re: Krishna's Wives
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To: alt-hindu@cis.ohio-state.edu
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Subject: Re: Krishna's Wives
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From: susarla@owlnet.rice.edu (H. Krishna Susarla)
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Date: 5 Feb 1995 15:32:13 GMT
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Distribution: world
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From news@larry.rice.edu Sun Feb 5 10: 19:30 1995
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Newsgroups: alt.hindu
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Organization: Rice University
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References: <3gp6o0$gin@ucunix.san.uc.edu>
In article <3gp6o0$gin@ucunix.san.uc.edu>, vijaypai@kachori.rice.edu says...
>Where did you get this idea? It's shown in the Bhagavata
>Purana (the primary history of Krishna's pastimes) that Krishna
>did indeed have 16,108 wives, with separate households for each
>of them. Narada Muni is said to have visited them in Dvaraka and
>saw that Krishna was simultaneously with each of his wives, and
>gawked in amazement when he saw this sight. Furthermore, Krishna
>had children with each of his wives, so they weren't just
>wives in name only (as some modern teachers have suggested).
One additional thing that is worth mentioning:
The 16,100 princesses were kidnapped by a demonic king. In Vedic society, a
girl who stays at the house of another man is considered defiled and
unsuitable for marriage. So, after Krsna killed this king, the princesses
had no one to turn to. Therefore, out of His causeless mercy for them, the
Lord married them all.
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