Bakasur

In the Mahabharata, the later of the
two great Hindu epics, Bakasur is a ferocious man-eating demon. To preserve
their lives, the local villagers send
Bakasur a daily sacrificial victim who
is chosen by lot, along with a wagonload of food that the demon also
eats. One day the lot falls to the brahmin who is hosting the Pandavas, the
five heroic brothers who are the epic’s
protagonists. When the brothers’
common wife, Draupadi, discovers
what has happened, she asks one of
the brothers, Bhima, to deliver the
food in the brahmin’s place. Bhima
drives the wagon to the cave, goads
the demon into battle by eating the
food in front of him, and then slays
Bakasur with one mighty blow.