Why Lord Krishna had 16108 wives???

The supreme personality of God Lord Krishna had 16108 wives but many don’t know the reason behind it.

Lord Krishna had only 8 wives there were called as ‘Ashtabharya’ (astha means eight and bharya means wife) named Rukmini, Satyabhama, Jambavati, Nagnajiti, Kalindi, Mitravinda, Bhadra and Lakshmana. All wives were basically His devotees.

     

                                                       

Once a powerful demon named Narkasur king of Pragjyotishpur had abducted 16100 women and kept them as captive. Satyabhama, one of Lord Krishna’s wives, was informed about this act of Narkasura. She requested Krishna to free them from his bondage.

Krishna attacked Pragjyotishpur and defeated Narkasura. Devi Satyabhama killed Narkasura with an arrow. 

He released these 16100 women from his captive. But those women denied going back to their homes as the society wouldn’t accept them and disgrace them for being captive of Narkasura.

Lord Krishna married them in order to restore their honour and dignity in society. Krishna offered each queen a palace and used to turn himself into 16100 Krishna’ bodies to present in every palaces at the same time.

Thus Lord Krishna had additional 16100 wives with 8 wives, 16108 in total.

                                                        ...Hare Krishna...