Pradyumna Enters the Palace of the Demon Sambar and Challenges him to Battle, page from a Dispersed Bhagavata Purana manuscript
Nepal
c. 1775
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About this work
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.
- Artist
- Nepal
- Date
- c. 1775
- Medium
- Opaque watercolor on paper
- Origin
- Nepal
- Style
- Himalayan
- Collection
- Arts of Asia
- Reference
- 1973.836 · Art Institute of Chicago