How did Prithviraj meet his other wives? How did they all live together?

Icchini Panwar (with her sword), Daughter of Salakha Rai

Icchini was Parmar Princess of Mount Abu. According to Prithviraja Raso, she was daughter of Salakha Rai and her sister Mandodari was married to Bhola Bhim. However, Bhimdev fell in love with Icchini and threatened Salakha to surrender her to him or face grave consequences. Her brother Jaitsi refused this marriage offer and married Icchini off to Prithviraja Chauhan as per previous plan. Bhimdev got angry and attacked Abu and in it her whole family died which later led to many skirmishes between Prithviraj and Bhimdev. History suggests Prithviraj wasn't successful in his campaign against Chalukyas unlike what Raso says.

Icchini became his Chief Queen and was mother of his sons (the number is not mentioned in Raso). Pritha, Prithviraj’s sister preferred to stay in her palace whenever she visited from Chittor.

Icchini Panwar as a warrior

It's alleged that she was mother of Govindraja as well. She was a warrior princess and it's alleged that when she got to know her husband was captured, she went in the battlefield to rescue him but got martyred.

Icchini had the title of Patrani and Kanha Chauhan called her Gauri for Shiv like Prithviraj. She was his second wife by chronology but held the highest place among all his queens.

Daughter of Nahar Rai Parihar, King of Mandowar

The princess of Mandowar who was daughter of Raja Nahar Rai was the first wife of Prithviraja Chauhan. He was of tender age of eleven years old when he (most likely his warriors) fought against Nahar Rai because he backed off from his promise to marry off his daughter to Prithviraj and called Chauhan clan not equal to Parihar (Pratihar). This angered Prithviraj and when Nahar Rai was defeated, he accepted Vassalage of Ajmer and married off his daughter to Prithviraj Chauhan.

Pundhirni

The daughter of Chandra Pundhir was very beautiful and Prithviraj fell in love with her beauty. He proposed marriage to her father and he gladly agreed for the alliance. Pundhirni and Prithviraj got married with no obstacles in their marriage.

Dahimi

The daughter of Dahim Rai and sister of Chamund Rai Dahima was another wife of Prithviraja Chauhan. Some versions of Raso calls Pundhirni and Dahimi as one woman.

Dahimi was mother of Kunwar Rainsi who was made Crown Prince of Delhi by advice of Rawal Samar Singh (brother in law of Prithviraja Chauhan in Raso) and other Samantas. Rainsi died fighting against Ghurids after he tried to take revenge of the brutal death of his father. His family did Jauhar.

Padmavati

The princess of Samudrashikhar Garh and daughter of Kunwar Padmasena fell in love with Prithviraj Chauhan but she was promised to Raja Kumodmani of Kumaon. She sent a letter to Prithviraja Chauhan and he came to take her. He took her from a temple where she went to pray and Prithviraj took her. The army went after them but Prithviraj defeated them. The story of sending letter to Prithviraja comes in Padmavati’s story not Sanyogita.

Shashivrata

Shashivrata was princess of Yadavas of Devagiri and she fell in love with Prithviraj Chauhan and vice versa when a dancer went to the palace of Prithviraja and described him the beauty of Shashivrata. He came to Devagiri and took Shashivrata away from the temple of Lord Shiva as she wished. Her fiance (Virchandra or Jaichanda or Kamdhwaj, the story has discrepancy of who exactly was her fiance) and her army fought Prithviraj but they escaped successfully.

Indravati

Daughter of Bhim Parmar of Ujjain was betrothed to Prithviraja Chauhan but he went to help his brother in law in a war and sent Panjjun Rai with his sword to get married to Prithviraj's sword. At first her father felt insulted and rejected the alliance but after skirmishes and the king understanding it would bring no good to him, Indravati was married to Prithviraj's sword and she became wife of Prithviraja Chauhan.

Princess of Kangra

Prithviraj had fought with Kingdom of Kangra with its ruler, Raja Bhan Bhoti. After he defeated him, the Raja married off his beautiful daughter to Prithviraj Chauhan.

Hansavati

Hansavati was princess of Ranthambore and daughter of Raja Bhanu Rai. Panchaeen, King of Chanderi wanted to marry her because he fell in love with her but her father wanted a better match for her. Panchaneen attacked him and he called Prithviraj for help. Prithviraj along with his brother in law Samar Singh came to his aid and defeated Panchaeen. The King became really happy and he married off Hansavati to Prithviraja.

After Hariraj defeated Govindraja (allegedly his mother was Icchini Panwar), he fled to Ranthambore and established separate line of Chauhan rulers in the region.

Sanyogita

Daughter of Jaichand and Princess of Kannauj named Sanyogita was the last wife of Prithviraja Chauhan. She fell in love with him and eloped with him from her palace near Ganges river where she was on House arrest because she refused to do her Swayamvar and garlanded the statue of Prithviraj. He became obsessed with her due to which his main queen Icchini almost left him and only stayed because he begged her. Sanyogita was his most favourite and like an obsession. Chandra Bardai criticized the relationship and Samar Singh told Pritha that the way Prithviraj was behaving, it would lead to Ghurids capturing Delhi. Gururam said she was the cause of destruction of Prithviraj and death of his most capable officers.

When she heard Prithviraj was captured, she died instantly and Pritha led the Jauhar with other queens.

Source- Prithviraja Raso (Largest version), Raso is an interpolated source

There are mention of other wives like Kurambhi, Bangujjari etc. It's mentioned that Icchini was above every queen but when Sanyogita came he spent day and night with her and this led to massive jealousy in every queen.

Sanyogita was very respectful to all his queens and even gave them a grand feast. Icchini faked friendship with Sanyogita to get to know about the love life of her with Prithviraj.

The queens had jealousy with each other but due to the constant threat of Ghurids, they didn't have time to do any kitchen politics so the queens mostly stayed united because they were constantly under pressure to save their honour.

Dahimi’s son Rainsi was the Crown Prince but no queen objected it because the danger looming above them was so great, they needed to stay united at that time.

Prithviraj might have had married for political alliances and all these love stories and calling him to get them looks like poetic creative liberty. Prithviraj didn't have time for love life because since his childhood, he was busy in wars. Prithviraj was busy in capturing Tabarhind after first Battle of Tarain so it's highly unlikely he would attack Kannauj that too to get a princess. It's very unrealistic and does not go with the personality of Prithviraj Chauhan. Chronology of Raso also doesn't match with history as it makes Bhimdev and Samar Singh as contemporary of Prithviraj Chauhan.

Who were the wives of Porus and Chandragupta?

Seleucid Princess (Wife of Sandrocottus)

The information on wives of Porus is not available but he had sons who died in war with Alexander so obviously Porus was not a very young man when he met Alexander and as a king, he likely had many wives but the information on his family is not available.

The wives of Chandragupta Maurya are mentioned in Parishisth Parvan and Mahavansh Tika.

Chandragupta and Durdhara

Chandragupta and Durdhara were King and Queen of the Mauryan Empire. She is said to be daughter of his eldest maternal uncle who had come to Patliputra with the King’s mother. He wedded the daughter of his eldest maternal uncle and raised her to dignity of Queen Consort and she was mother of Bindusara. The name of mother of Bindusara is Durdhara in Parishisth Parvan.

Both sources mentions that Chandragupta had many wives and Durdhara, the main Queen , had died while pregnant due to accidentally eating poisoned food of Chandragupta. Her baby was saved through timely Cesarion. Chanakya used to mix poison in his food to build his immunity but without informing the King.

Nand Nandini (Daughter of Nanda)

A daughter of Nanda was one of the wives of Chandragupta Maurya. The marriage happened after he had defeated the Nanda King. Parishisth Parvan tells a dramatic story that she had fallen in love with him at first sight and he rejected her but later accepted her due to Chanakya. Most likely the marriage was a strategic alliance where chandragupta gained legitimacy in the conquered Empire and she could continue her royal life as a queen. There is no information whether they had any children or not.

Seleucid Princess (in Indian royal dress after marriage to Sandrocottus)

Seleucus and Sandrocottus had a marital alliance after their war. Sandrocottus is identified with Chandragupta Maurya. Seleucus gave up Kabul, Kandhar, Herat and Makran (Baluchistan) and in return got 500 elephants and a marital alliance.

Historians opine that a marriage happened between Sandrocottus and Seleucus and Seleucus gave one of his daughters to Sandrocottus as his wife. The princess was likely quite young when she got married. It was very unusual for a Greek king to marry his daughter to a non Greek king , so, it's likely was deliberately not recorded in Seleucid Chronicled, specially when he was trying to portray himself as supreme King in Hellenistic world.

What happened to the wives of Prithviraj Chauhan after his defeat in the battle of Tarain?

Sanyogita, last and most beloved wife of Prithviraj Chauhan died instantly as soon as she heard her husband was captured. She didn't get time and her soul left her body to reunite with her beloved in divine world. She is called chaste and loyal woman whose love and devotion towards her husband was extreme.

Icchini Panwar, Chief Queen of Prithviraj Chauhan, allegedly did a rescue mission in which she wore a warrior’s dress and went in the battlefield but got martyred. She was allegedly mother of Govindraj.

Pritha and other royal women did Jauhar chanting the name of Harihara.

Source- Prithviraja Raso by Chandra Bardai

What were the names of Asoka's wives? Did he have any children from them?

 

them?

Devi

Ashoka was appointed as Viceroy at Ujjain. While going to Ujjain, he halted at Vidisha and met Devi, beautiful daughter of a merchant. He courted her and brought her to Ujjain where she gave birth to Mahendra and Sanghamitra. When Ashoka usupred the throne, Devi didn't follow him to Patliputra but sent her children with their father.

There is speculation why Devi stayed behind in Vidhisha and one of the opinions is that she didn't want to be ruled by Agramahishi (Chief Queen) at Patliputra and preferred to rule his Harem at Vidisha.

Karuwaki

Karuwaki was second wife and Ashoka and mother of his son , Tivala. Her mention is in Ashoka's Allahabad Pillar Inscription in which it's mentioned all the charities made by her should be in her name.

Karuwaki’s origins are not mentioned in any sources whether literary or archeological. Her being related with Kalinga in any way is a pure myth.

Few scholars associate Karuwaki with Tisyarakshita, Ashoka's last wife and second Chief Queen.

Padmavati

Padmavati was one of the wives of Ashoka and her origins are not known. She was mother of his son Kunala.

Kunala was born the day Ashoka had ended up making 84000 stupas. He was first name Dharmavivardhana but due to his bright eyes resembling a Himalayan bird named Kunala, he was named Kunala. He is said to have eyes like a blue lotus, which might be just a metaphor.

Padmavati can not be Asandhimitra because she was alive when the infamous story of blinding of Kunala happened.

As Kunala was the Crown Prince, Padmavati either was from a very rich noble background or she was his absolutely favourite wife but not noble enough to be raised to the rank of Chief Queen.

Asandhimitra

Asandhimitra was the most favourite and influential wife of Ashoka and he raised her to the rank of Chief Queen just because of her wit, merit and sheer loyalty towards the King.

Asandhimitra is said to have a previous birth connection with Ashoka in which they met Lord Buddha and due to their merit rebirthed as King and Queen.

Due to her merit, Ashoka had become impressed and raised her to the dignity of Chief Queen and it brought jealousy of her co-wives. Ashoka showed them Asandhimitra’s worth when even getting royal seal in a test she refused to become a sovereign. Ashoka through this test showed that he trusted Asandhimitra the most and he had her absolute loyalty.

Asandhimitra had the sole right to give advice to Ashoka and even preach him in philosophy. The privilege of having ear of the King was power enough for her to rule over her co-wives.

Asandhimitra is not mentioned to have any children so it's assumed she either was barren or her children didn't get recognition in history.

Tisyarakshita

Tisyarakshita or Tissarakkha was second Chief Queen of Ashoka. She was made Chief Queen after death of his favourite wife Asandhimitra. She is known to have been highly ambitious.

When she had seen Kunala , she fell in love with his Handsomeness and his eyes attracted her. She asked for love from Kunala but he rejected her calling her a mother and her request a sin. Enraged and feared that Kunala would punish her, she once forged a letter of Ashoka to Kunala (when she got sovereignty for few days as she had saved life of Ashoka from a life threatening disease by finding it would be cured by eating onions. Ashoka as a Buddhist didn't eat onions and she convinced him to eat it as medicines) in which it was written Kunal's eyes should be burnt.

Kunala, who was Viceroy in Taxila was shocked and his ministers refused the order so he out of loyalty burned his eyes. He along with his wife Kanchanmala became a wanderer singing songs of his plight.

When Ashoka heard the songs and realised it was his son, he was grieved and when he got to know Tisyarakshita was the reason, he decided to punish her. Kunala asked for mercy for her but Ashoka eventually burned her alive. In few other versions he forgave her when Kunal's eyes magically returned.

In Parishisth Parvan, Kunala was in Ujjain not Taxila and the queen who blinded him is not mentioned and she did it to make her son heir to the throne and not because Kunala had rejected her.

Ashoka had other wives as well who gave birth to his daughter Charumati, his sons Kustana and Jaluka and others who are not named.

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Who are the 5 Indian politicians who have the top most world beauties as their wives?

 

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1 Gorgeous wife of congress leader Sachin Pilot, Sara Pilot

Sachin Pilot married Sara Abdullah on 15 January 2004. She is is the daughter of Farooq Abdullah.

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2.Beautiful wife of UP Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, Dimple Yadav

Akhilesh Yadav got married to Dimple Yadav on 24 November 1999. She is MP from Kannauj constituency.

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3.Beautiful wife of Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia, Priyadarshini Raje Scindia

The couple have one son and one daughter.

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4.Gorgeous wife of Sukhbir Singh Badal, Harsimrat Kaur Badal

She is Food Processing minister of India.

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5.Gorgeous wife of congress leader Digvijay Singh, Amrita Rai

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6.Gorgeous wife of BJP leader Ravi Rana, Navneet Kaur

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7.Gorgeous wife of BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis, Amruta Fadnavis

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How many wives did Arjun have?

 Draupadi (1st Wife)

While in hiding, the Pandavas reached Panchala Kingdom it was then Arjuna & Draupadi’s marriage happened. Draupadi was the princess of Panchala and the youngest daughter of King Drupada who was born from the Yajna Agni (Sacrificial Fire). It was said that Drupada wanted her daughter only to be married to the 3rd Pandava - Arjuna. So he had kept the hardest challenge in her Svayamvara so that the most talented archer (which was indeed Arjuna at that time) can only win. In her Svayamvara, Arjuna won her and later she became the common wife of the Pandavas as per Kunti’s order. Arjuna & Draupadi’s love story is a topic of debate in the whole Mahabharata. Some says Arjuna loved Subhadra most, some says Bhima loved Draupadi most. But if one follows the original Vyasa Mahabharata he / she will definitely understand that it was Arjuna and Draupadi who loved each other the most. Vyasa didn’t mention directly but it is the story and small accounts that prove their extreme love for each other.

Uloopi (2nd Wife)

In his 12 years of exile after marriage to Draupadi, when he went to a place (said to be now Haridwar), he met Uloopi - a widow and childless Naga Princess who hailed from the underwater kingdom of serpents in Ganga River. She saw him bathing and became infatuated with him. She kind of kidnapped him and took him to her place. She desired to get intimate with him. Arjuna rejected initially because of his vow of celibacy. It is also said that she told Arjuna that if he doesn’t accepts her she will commit suicide. Later Arjuna agreed and in future they both had a son called Iravan. Many consider it as an “affair” but scholars state their union is legitimized through what is traditionally identified as a Gandharva Marriage - a private, mutual agreement without formal rituals.

Chitrangada (3rd Wife)

After leaving Uloopi’s place Arjuna travelled towards the kingdom of Manipura (not the Indian State of now) and there he met Chitrangada - the princess of Manipura (there isn’t much story on how Arjuna met Chitrangada). They married on a condition that - Chitrangada’s son will be the future ruler of Manipura as the king had not any son. Arjuna stayed there for 3 years and after they got a son named - Babruvahana, Arjuna left the place and started his journey again.

Subhadra (4th Wife)

There are different kind of stories about Subhadra’s marriage to Arjuna. After leaving Manipura, Arjuna came to Prabhasa. When Krishna came to know about this he met him and invited him to Dwarka. Arjuna comes there and meets Subhadra. Some versions say that Arjuna was attracted towards her seeing her beauty and abducted her, some says that it was a mutual decision of both of them where Krishna helped. But ultimately after that they get married in a grand ceremony and Arjuna spends his remaining pilgrimage years in Dwarka. Later he took her with him in Indraprastha.