History of Mediaeval Hindu India (being a History of India from 600 to 1200 A.D.) v3.c41.s4.10

v3.c41.s4.10

Al-Beruni states that a Hindu cannot have more than four wives. This is indeed strange as we have come across no such limit to the number of wives in the law-books nor in tradition or history. Kings especially married as many wives as they liked and Śrīkṛiṣhṇa had 108. Prithvīrāj too had, according to the Rāsā, more than 8 queens. Al-Beruni, rightly however, states that the Hindus have no divorce among them which is perhaps a custom which characterizes Hindus only and continues to this day undoubtedly to their honour.