# Pradyumna Enters the Palace of the Demon Sambar and Challenges him to Battle, page from a Dispersed Bhagavata Purana manuscript

- By: Nepal
- Date: c. 1775
- Medium: Opaque watercolor on paper
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: 36.2 × 52.7 cm (14 1/4 × 20 3/4 in.)
- Culture: Nepal
- Credit line: Gift of Everett McNear
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/46266)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
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Pradyumna (painted in blue), now grown up and dressed as a young crowned prince, stands at the center of the painting with his arms spread wide, as he challenges the demon Sambar enthroned in a pavillion (in dark blue top and red skirt at upper left). The demon emerges in the field behind the palace and ascends the clouds. He showers the young Pradyumna with a massive hale of magical, illusionary weapons of flames, swords, daggers, arrows, hail, and stones- but all to no avail. In the end (not shown), Pradyumna cuts off Sambar's head and returns by air to his father's palace in Dwarka.

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