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From the epics · 1 telling
Krishna's penance for a son
Jambavati asks Krishna for a son like Pradyumna; Krishna spends six months in austerities under the sage Upamanyu, and Shiva appears as Ardhanarishvara to grant the boy Samba, named after that form.
From the epics · 1 telling · contested
The hunter and Arjuna
In exile Arjuna does austerities in the Himalaya to win weapons for the coming war.