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Bhima Delivering a Cart of Food and Slaying the Maneater Bakasura

OriginHindu Mythology

During their exile, the Pandava brothers and their mother Kunti lived in disguise in the village of Ekachakra. Upon learning that a local family was forced to sacrifice a member to the ravenous demon Bakasura, Bhima volunteered to take their place. He engaged the rakshasa in a titanic struggle, ultimately slaying the beast and freeing the villagers from their long-standing reign of terror.