Pradyumna
Sign in to savethumb|upright|Pradyumna, holding a bow and an arrow, in the Kondamotu Vrishni heroes relief, 4th century CE Pradyumna () is the eldest son of the Hindu deities Krishna and his wife Rukmini. He is considered to be one of the four vyuha avatars of Vishnu. According to the Bhagavata Purana, Pradyumna was the reincarnation of Kamadeva, the god of love. The Mahabharata states that Pradyumna was a portion of Sanat Kumara.
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- Deity.type
- Hindu
- Deity.name
- Pradyumna
- Deity.image
- India, Pahari, Basholi, 18th century - Pradyumna and Samvara fight with maces- Leaf from the "Large Basohli Bhagav - 1960.184 - Cleveland Museum of Art.tif
- Deity.father
- Krishna
- Deity.mother
- Rukmini
- Deity.caption
- An 18th-century Pahari painting of Pradyumna (right) battling with demon Shambara
- Deity.texts
- Mahabharata, Srimad Bhagavatam, Harivamsa
- Deity.affiliation
- Vaishnavism, Kamadeva
- Deity.spouse
- MayavatiRukmavatiPrabhavati
- Deity.children
- Aniruddha
- Deity.dynasty
- Yaduvamsha
- Deity.abode
- Dvaraka
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11 sectionsContents
- Birth and early life
- Marriages
- Role in Dvaraka
- Defence of Dvaraka
- Death
- Epithets
- Descendants
- Texts
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thumb|upright|Pradyumna, holding a bow and an arrow, in the Kondamotu Vrishni heroes relief, 4th century CE Pradyumna () is the eldest son of the Hindu deities Krishna and his wife Rukmini. He is considered to be one of the four vyuha avatars of Vishnu. According to the Bhagavata Purana, Pradyumna was the reincarnation of Kamadeva, the god of love. The Mahabharata states that Pradyumna was a portion of Sanat Kumara.
The Harivamsa describes the chaturvyuha, consisisting of the Vrishni heroes Vāsudeva, Samkarsana, Pradyumna, and Aniruddha, that would later be the basis for the Vaishnava concept of primary quadrupled expansion, or avatara.