Krishna, the eternal lover, is \nbelieved to have charmed the heart of every woman he came across and his \nmarriage with 16,100 women is the stuff of numerous ballads that have \nenthralled us over ages. But who amongst them all did Krishna love? Who ruled \nhis heart and influenced his life?Not one, but there were eight women whom \nKrishna married solely on the basis of mutual love and respect. Each of these \nwives?the Ashtabharyas?contributed to making Krishna what he was. While their \nnames figure in the text of the great epic Mahabharata, not much has been \ndiscussed about them. Who are these women and what was that special \n?something? in each of them that won Krishna over? What were each of those \nrelationships like?Radha Viswanath delves deep into the great Hindu epics, \npuranas and other ancient texts, weaving nuggets of information with rich \nimagination to give us a fascinating picture of Krishna?s life with these \neight extraordinary women.