[1] Pradyumna was raised by Mayavati (Rati), Shambarasura's cook, and the consort of the deity's true form of Kamadeva.

After eventually growing up, Pradyumna killed Shambarasura and returned to his family in Dvaraka, along with his consort.

Shambarasura came to the palace of Dvaraka in the disguise of a woman, took away Pradyumna, who was hardly ten days old at that time, and threw him into the ocean.

Mayavati, the incarnation of Rati, who worked in Shambarasura's kitchen as a cook, found Pradyumna inside the fish.

[2] After Pradyumna grew up, Mayavati revealed to him his true identity as well as her own, as well as his purpose on earth, which was to slay Shambarasura.