Junior wives of Krishna

[3][4][5][6] Generally all of them are unnamed, however many commentators of the Bhagavata Purana regard Rohini to be their leader, though such an explicit mention is not found in the scripture.

According to the Kalika Purana and the Adi Parva book of the Hindu epic Mahabharata, they were apsaras (celestial female spirits).

[3][4][10] In the Dana Dharma chapter of the Shanti Parva book affixed centuries later, they are blessed by the goddess Bhudevi to be wives of Krishna.

Krishna complies and sends them to his capital with Narakasura's plunder and four-tusked white elephants gifted by Bhumi.

In another story narrated in the Bhagavata Purana, Narada, Vishnu's devotee and wandering sage, was curious to find out how Krishna was managing to live with his 16,108 wives and came to Dvaraka to check.

Watching this phenomenon, Narada was convinced that it was divinity in the form of Krishna, a complete and manifold manifestation who had enjoyed the company of his 16,108 consorts at the same time.

Having satisfied himself of the divine powers of the deity himself, Narada embarked on his usual voyages around the world singing the praise of Krishna.

[14] A variant tells that the mischief-maker sage Narada requested Krishna to gift him one of his many wives, as he was a bachelor.

[15] In the Bhagavata Purana, Rohini and Krishna are described to have an unspecified number of sons, out of which only Diptiman and Tamratapta are named.

For this incest, Krishna cursed Samba to be inflicted with leprosy and his wives to be kidnapped by Abhira robbers after his death.

On the way, Abhira robbers attack the entourage and plunder their wealth and kidnap some of Krishna's widows.

The Raginis selected one of these ragas to which to modulate her strains for affecting and securing the heart of Krishna, the blissful and harmonious deity.