Women in Mahabharata - Prabhavati
She is the daughter of Vajranabha, the king of the city of Vajra. Her story begins when we are told that she has been rejecting any and all suitors gathered by her father, with one excuse or another.
Learning about her desire to have a swayamvara, Indra sends over some people who use swans as their chosen motif to hype up Pradyumna. Indra also tells the swans to, once Prabhavati is appropriately curious about Pradumna, to inform him as well. Basically, Indra and Krishna come together and conspire to set them up.
One of the swan-people, named Shuchimukhi, gets close to Prabhavati and starts praising Pradyumna. Prabhavati too likes what she hears, and she gives an all-clear to Shuchimukhi to arrange a meet-up.
Shuchimukhi then convinces Vajranabha to invite a world-famous dramatist named Bhadra to showcase his art in Vajrapuri.
When the swan-people inform Krishna of this opening, he disguises a bunch of Yadavas as actors and sends them alongside Pradyumna, Samba and Gada to infiltrate the city. Here, Pradyumna disguised himself as Bhadra, Samba became the comic actor, and Gada took on the role of one of the musicians. They went and started a reenactment of Ramayana in the city of Swapura, close to Vajrapuri.
Vajranabha, hearing about their arrival, formally invited them to perform during the Mahakala festival. For this festival, they performed the story of Ravana, Nalakubera and Rambha.
Shuchimukhi, after the performance, smuggles Pradyumna into Prabhavati's room by disguising him as a bee. Then they get married gandharva-style and sleep together while Shuchimukhi stands guard outside their room.
From then on, Pradyumna spends his days performing for Vajranabha and the nights romancing his daughter and being very annoyingly poetic. After a while, he even starts sneaking into her room during the daytime by convincing a few other palace staff to cover for him.
Once, when her cousins Gunavati and Chandravati walk in on them, Prabhavati convinces them to also get married to Samba and Gada, respectively.
Soon, Prabhavati gives birth to a son, as do Chandravati and Gunavati.
Once the three children are spotted by the palace guards, finally, a war breaks out. Prabhavati encourages Pradyumna to fight.
Pradyumna asks Samba and Gada to fight using Indra's Airavata and chariot, respectively, and himself goes to hold down the fort in the sky. Indra's son Jayanta, too, comes in to help, and he and Pradyumna take turns fighting the daitya army.
In the meantime, after the Mahakala festival, Krishna too reaches the city borders and lends Pradyumna both Garuda and sudarshana, and Pradyumna finally manages to kill Vajranabha.
After this, Krishna divides up Vajranabha's kingdom and gives three parts of it to the three children and one part to Jayanta's son Vijaya.
After the Yadava civil war, apparently Pradyumna, Samba and Gada survivedand move back to Vajrapuri to live out the rest of their days with their sons.
