Women in Mahabharata - Revati
She is the princess of Kushasthali, the kingdom over whose ruins Krishna establishes the city of Dwarika. She is named after her grandfather (or just an ancestor) Revata. She traveled to various places with her father the King Raivata-Kakudmi as the latter chased his passion for good music.
After one such long excursion [to Brahma-loka], father and daughter return to their kingdom, only to find it taken over by the Yadavas. Seeing no way of recovering his kingdom from the colonisers now, Kakudmi marries Revati to Balarama, one of the oligarchical chiefs of the Mathura-Dwarika kingdoms, in an effort to secure at least some political influence, at least for this daughter (since he leaves anyway).
His gambit pays off somewhat, as even though Revati doesn't gain any specific visual political advantage, she remains the apple of her husband's eye.
Revati is known for being taller than Balarama, and the stories often end up with Balarama forcibly curbing her height by pulling her down with his plough. Breaking the metaphor, we can assume she was either taller than or older than Balarama (or both!), and that she never held either of those things over her husband's head.
Revati and Balarama are one of the rare couples in Mahabharata who are truly deeply, madly in love with each other and who aren't afraid to show it off (absolutely no control on pda).
For all the complications that could have arisen from Balarama's drinking habits, Revati adapts to it like water to a bowl and becomes a true 'saha-dharmini' to him in every sense of the word. Both of them are also known for being talented musicians and loyal patrons of several artists and performers in Dwarika.
Magha describes Balarama's default manner of speaking as:
Ghoornayan madiraa-swaada-mada-paatalita-dyuti,
[He speaks] With gyrating eyes, reddened by the effects of liquor
Revati-vadan-ochhishta-pari-poota-tate drishou.
And purified completely by the kisses of Revati['s face].
Her sons are Nishitha and Ulmuka. Folklore also gives her a daughter named Shashirekha/Vatsala. (So...technically, Midnight, Torch and Moonlight)













