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Ashtabharya with Krishna - 19th Century Mysore painting depicting Krishna with his eight principal consorts. The Ashtabharya (Sanskrit: अष्टभार्या, romanized: Aṣṭabhāryā) or Ashta-bharya(s) is the group of eight principal queen-consorts of Hindu god Krishna, the king of Dvaraka, Saurashtra [1] in the Dvapara Yuga (epoch).
Jambavati (Sanskrit: जाम्बवती, romanized: Jāmbavatī) is chronologically the second Ashtabharya of the Hindu god Krishna. She is the only daughter of the bear-king Jambavan . [ 1 ] Krishna marries her when he defeats her father, Jambavan, in his quest to retrieve the stolen Syamantaka jewel.
'beautifully-tressed'), [1] is the fifth of the Ashtabharya, [2] the eight principal wives of the Hindu god Krishna. In Vaishnava texts, Nagnajiti is said to be an incarnation of Niladevi, the third aspect of Lakshmi. [3] During the Dvapara Yuga, Niladevi was born on the earth as Satya, the daughter of King Nagnajit of Kosala.
Lakshmana (Sanskrit: लक्ष्मणा, romanized: Lakṣmaṇā) or Lakshana is the seventh of the Ashtabharya, [1] the eight principal queen-consorts of Hindu god Krishna, an avatar of the god Vishnu and the king of Dvaraka in the Dvapara Yuga (epoch).
The Bhagavata Purana gives her the epithet Kaikeyi, the princess of the Kaikeya kingdom. She was the daughter of King Dhrishtaketu and his wife Shrutakirti, the sister of Kunti and the sister (or cousin) of Vasudeva (Krishna's father) and thus Krishna's cousin.
Mitravinda was known by the epithet "the virtuous" and called as Shaibya or Shaivya (meaning daughter/descendant of King Shibi/Shivi) in the Vishnu Purana.Ratnagarbha, a commentator on the Vishnu Purana, identifies Mitravinda with Kalindi, another chief queen of Krishna.
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Besides the Ashtabharya (Eight principal queens of Krishna), [1] [2] Krishna is described to have married several thousand women, he rescued from the demon Narakasura.The Bhagavata Purana and the Mahabharata state that 16,000 women were rescued, however the Vishnu Purana and the Harivamsa (appendix of the Mahabharata) differ and set the number as 16,100.