Who has most wives in the world?

Indian politicians court man with 'world's biggest family:' 39 wives, 127 offspring. At last count, Ziona Chana has 39 wives, 94 children and 33 grandchildren. They all live with him in his 100-room, four-story house perched among the hills of Baktwang village in the Indian state of Mizoram.
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Which king had many wives?

Henry VIII is best known for his six wives, and several mistresses he kept on the side. The monarch's desperate quest for political unification and a healthy male heir drove him to annul two marriages and have two wives beheaded.
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Which king has the most wives in world?

Abumbi II, the 11th fon, or king, of Bafut, Cameroon, has close to 100 wives. They weren't all his to start. According to local tradition, when a fon dies, his successor inherits all his wives and then marries his own queens.
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Which Indian king has more wives?

Maharaja Bhupinder Singh built a 'Leela-Bhavan' in Patiala, where only naked people were allowed. This palace is built in Patiala city on the road leading to Bhupendra Nagar, close to the Bahudari Bagh. According to historians the Maharaja had a total of 365 queens, including 10 authorized queens.
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Who has the largest family in the world?

Ziona Chana, formerly the head of the world's largest family, passed away aged 76 in June, leaving behind a clan of 181 members.
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What man has the most wives?

King Solomon. Perhaps the most well-known polygamist of all is the wise figure of King Solomon. He is believed to have had around 700 wives, and another 300 concubines, or mistresses.
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Who is the biggest family of India?

Ziona Chana had 39 wives, 94 children and 33 grandchildren - all of whom lived together in a four-storey pink house with about 100 rooms in Baktawng in Mizoram state.
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Can a Hindu have 2 wives?

As for a Hindu or a person who practices Hinduism, polygamy is both prohibited and illegal. Both under the Indian Law and as per the Hindu Marriage Act. Now, it's illegal for a Hindu to marry more than one person or keeping two spouses at the same time.
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Which God has only one wife?

As the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krishna shows both examples - as Krishna He has 16.108 wives and as Rama He has only one wife. Also Vishnu has only one wife.
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Is it legal to marry 2 wives in India?

Thus polygamy became illegal in India in 1956, uniformly for all of its citizens except for Muslims, who are permitted to have four wives and for Hindus in Goa and along the western coast where bigamy is legal. A polygamous Hindu marriage is null and void.
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Who married most times?

Glynn Wolfe, also known as Scotty Wolfe (July 25, 1908 – June 10, 1997), was a Baptist minister who resided in Blythe, California. He was famous for holding the record for the largest number of monogamous marriages (31). His shortest marriage lasted 19 days, and his longest lasted eleven years.
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How many wives Mughal had?

Portraits of Sixteen wives of Mughal Emperors are shown; they are set in oval frames and arranged around an image of the Diwani Khas–the private audience hall in the Delhi Red Fort. As actual portraits of only a few of this group are known, this assemblage is in part, a construct.
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Which Indian king has only one wife?

What are some Indian kings and princes who have only one love or wife till their death? The Peshwa king Madhav Rao Peshwa is one of the few rulers of Maharashtra , who had only one wife till he died . Her name was Ramabai Peshwe .
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Is it good to have two wives?

A new study conducted in Saudi Arabia and UAE has found that polygamy can increase the risk of heart disease by more than four-fold in men. The more wives a man has, the greater his risk of heart disease, the first major study of the health risks of polygamy finds.
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Why did Indian kings have many wives?

Several reasons. Infant mortality was much higher. So having more babies with more wives insured that you had surviving heirs. Having more wives was looked upon as a sign that you were wealthy and manly - you could afford to have a large family, and “take care” of many women.
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Did Jesus have a wife?

"Christian tradition has long held that Jesus was not married, even though no reliable historical evidence exists to support that claim," King said in a press release.
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Why Krishna have so many wives?

Being trapped in dharma, Shri Krishna accepted all women as his wives so that they live an honorable life and nobody dares to mock them. To restore their honor and give them the status of queen, Shri Krishna married them. That is how he came to have 16,108 wives.
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Is it a sin to have two wives?

"In the case of polygamy, there is a universal standard – it is understood to be a sin, therefore polygamists are not admitted to positions of leadership including Holy Orders, nor after acceptance of the Gospel can a convert take another wife, nor, in some areas, are they admitted to Holy Communion."
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Is it legal to marry your sister?

Section 5 of the Hindu Marriage Act bans, among other things, marriage between a brother and sister, uncle and niece, aunt and nephew, or children of brother and sister or of two brothers or of two sisters. The marriage is void, unless the custom of the community permits it.
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How many marriages are allowed in Pakistan?

Polygamy in Pakistan is legally permissible according to the law of 1961, but restricted. Only males adhering to the Islamic faith are legally allowed to enter into polygamous unions, with a maximum of four wives at one time. Legally, only Muslim citizens are allowed to enter Polygamous marriage.
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How many wives can a Sikh have?

Sikhs aren't allowed to have more than one wife, because Sikhs believe that a person's fate is sealed the moment they're born. Their fate, as far as marriage is concerned, is sealed with one other soul, not two or more.
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Who is the most wife?

Zion-a (76), believed to head the world's largest family, with 38 wives and 89 children. Mizoram and his village at Baktawng Tlangnuam has become a major tourist attraction in the state because of the family. Rest in Peace Sir!
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Who had the most kids?

Valentina Vassilyev and her husband Feodor Vassilyev are alleged to hold the record for the most children a couple has produced. She gave birth to a total of 69 children – sixteen pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets and four sets of quadruplets – between 1725 and 1765, a total of 27 births.
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Who is the biggest father?

Ziona Chana, of India, was the head of a polygamist Christian sect called Chana Pawl. He is believed to have fathered 89 children with 38 wives. He is also said to have 36 grandchildren as part of the “world's largest family,” according to some reports.
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