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Re: Why thsi Ramakrishan-Vivekanand bashing?
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To: alt-hindu@uunet.uu.net
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Subject: Re: Why thsi Ramakrishan-Vivekanand bashing?
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From: jupiter!f0g1@uunet.uu.net (Prasad Gokhale)
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Date: 25 Jan 1995 16:24:27 GMT
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From news@sol.sun.csd.unb.ca Wed Jan 25 11: 14:33 1995
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Newsgroups: alt.hindu
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Organization: University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada
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References: <3g3vl7$c84@ucunix.san.uc.edu>
vgr@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (G. R. Vishwanath) writes:
[Stuff on RK deleted]
> Krishna had 16000 wives ...
This statement is not true. Shri Krishna had emancipated 16000 women
held captive by the King of Kamarupa (Assam) and had resettled them
in Dwaraka. It is this gesture that provided Him the title "Bhoo-pati".
The "Bhoo" was left out, and only "pati" remained. The story is therefore
misinterpreted as Krishna having 16000 wives ...
--Prasad.
