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'radiant', IAST: Rukmiṇī) is a Hindu goddess and the first queen of Krishna. [7] [8] [9] She is described as the chief of Krishna's wives in Dvārakā. [10] [11] [12] Rukmini is revered as the avatar of Lakshmi and is venerated primarily in Warkari, [13] and Haridasa tradition, [citation needed] and additionally in Sri Vaishnavism. [14]
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).
Rohini and Krishna are described to have unspecified number of sons, out of which only Diptiman and Tamratapta are named. [4] Many commentaries and translations of the scripture regard Rohini to be the chief of the 16,000 non-principal wives - who were kidnapped by the demon Narakasura and were rescued by Krishna after killing the demon - and ...
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.
The first known depiction of the life of Krishna himself comes relatively late, with a relief found in Mathura, and dated to the 1st–2nd century CE. [63] This fragment seems to show Vasudeva, Krishna's father, carrying baby Krishna in a basket across the Yamuna. [63]
Krishna, the eighth child of Devaki, was exchanged with the daughter of Nanda and Yashoda in secrecy. Yashoda (foster-mother of Krishna) and Rohini play an important nurturing Krishna and Balarama in their childhood. [5] After Vasudeva is freed by Krishna and Balarama, Rohini gives birth to a daughter, Subhadra. [8]
Pradyumna was the son of Krishna and the sixty-first grandson of Adinarayana. His mother was Rukmini, whom Krishna had eloped with from Vidarbha during her swayamvara on her request. Pradyumna was born in Dvaraka and was the reincarnation of the demigod Kamadeva, a deity who was burnt to ashes by the fury of Shiva.
She approached Krishna to find a solution and to be blessed with a son like the handsome Pradyumna, Krishna's first-born son from his chief wife Rukmini. Then Krishna went to the hermitage of the sage Upamanyu in the Himalayas and as advised by the sage, he started to pray to the god Shiva. He did penance for six months in various postures ...