Sambara

ca. 1760 - ca. 1765

Painting, in opaque water-colour and gold on paper, from a 'fifth' Bhagavata Purana series, the demon Shambara (Sambara), with mottled grey skin, a boar's tusks and an ape's tail, sits on a dark blue throne attended by two demon courtiers, one of them orange-red and the other greenish black. Two fishermen, one holding up the fish that had swallowed Krishna's son, Pradyumna, stand on the right of the pavilion. There is a tree beside them.