The ladies may be gopis that are depicted with fish tails as Vishnu assumed his first avatar as a fish, apparelently to save Manu the lawgiver, whom Hindus consider the first human, from the flood and to take back the Vedas, which had been stolen from Brahma and carried to the depths of the flood waters, and there is all that swimming in milk stuff, not to mention the sex
They are just babes in the hot tub.
Tim PS law and the image of weapons go back a long way.