Editing Rukmini (section)

===Married life and children===
[[File:Vittala Rakhumai Thennangur.jpg|thumb|309x309px|Statue of Vittala Rakhumai, Thennangur]]
Though Krishna married many other women, Rukmini remained his chief consort and the queen of Dvaraka.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gSsqAAAAYAAJ&q=rukmini+chief+consort+krishna |title=Books 8-12: Krishna, spirit of delight|date=1976 |publisher=Vighneswara Publishing House |pages=740 |language=en |quote="Rukmini : Chief consort of Krishna"}}</ref> When she longed for a child, Krishna flew to [[Mount Kailash|Kailash]] upon his mount [[Garuda]], and expressed his wife's desire to [[Shiva]]. Obliging, Shiva blessed Rukmini to be the bearer of the new incarnation of [[Kamadeva]], whom he had previously immolated with his third eye. Thus was [[Pradyumna]] born.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Mani |first=Vettam |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mvXsDwAAQBAJ&dq=rukmini+dvaraka&pg=PA594 |title=Puranic Encyclopedia: A Comprehensive Work with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature |date=2015-01-01 |publisher=Motilal Banarsidass |isbn=978-81-208-0597-2 |pages=594 |language=en}}</ref> Many scriptures have mentioned that Rukmini and other wives of Krishna lived like sisters.

The [[Bhagavata Purana]] and [[Vishnu Purana]] states that Rukmini and Krishna had ten sons—[[Pradyumna]], Charudeshna, Sudeshna, Charudeha, Sucharu, Charugupta, Bhadracharu, Charuchandra, Vicharu, and Charu.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Gita Press Gorakhpur |url=https://archive.org/details/vishnu-puran_202204/page/n399/mode/1up |title=Vishnu Puran |pages=389 |language=Hindi}}</ref><ref name = "Mani" /><ref name = "Sinha" >{{Cite book|last=Sinha|first=Purnendu Narayana|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OveYh2v-1roC&q=sons+of+krishna&pg=PT691|title=A Study of the Bhagavata Purana: Or, Esoteric Hinduism|date=1950|publisher=Library of Alexandria|isbn=978-1-4655-2506-2|language=en}}</ref> In the ''[[Harivamsa]]'', Rukmini's sons are Pradyumna, Charudeshna, Charuchandra, Charugarbha, Sudangstra, Druma, Sushena, Charugupta, Charuvinda, and Chharuvahu. A different listing is found in ''[[Anushasana Parva]]'' of the ''Mahabharata'', where Pradyumna, Charudeshna, Sucharu, Charuvesa, Yasodhana, Charusravas, Charuyasas, and Sambhu are Rukmini's sons.<ref name = "Mani" /><ref>{{Cite web|title=The Mahabharata, Book 13: Anusasana Parva: Anusasanika Parva: Section XIV|url=https://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/m13/m13a014.htm|access-date=2021-06-18|website=sacred-texts.com}}</ref> Vishnu Puran also mentioned that Rukmini had a daughter named Charumati.<ref name="Dalal">{{Cite book|last=Dalal|first=Roshen|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DH0vmD8ghdMC&q=Rukmini|title=Hinduism: An Alphabetical Guide|date=2010|publisher=Penguin Books India|isbn=978-0-14-341421-6|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Gita Press Gorakhpur |url=https://archive.org/details/vishnu-puran_202204/page/n399/mode/1up |title=Vishnu Puran |pages=389}}</ref>