Kansa Kamsa : son of Ugrasena king of Mathura & cousin of Devaki.
... attended with intimidating of Swadeshists carried out through the instrumentality of Indian subordinates on whom the whole blame is thrown. This is the milk of Putana by which Kansa hoped to poison the infant Krishna. The modern Kansa comes of a shop-keeping breed and is careful only to let the infant have as much of the milk and no more as will do his business for him. The separation of Judicial and Executive ...
... an event much before his birth. More than five thousand years ago, in the kingdom of Mathura in Northern India, the king Ug-rasena ruled his people and protected them with due care. His son Kamsa, however, was ambitious; he usurped the kingdom and imprisoned his father taking the reins of government in his heavy and oppressive hands. However, he had great love for his sister, Devaki, and so... prison house well in time where she could be placed in the hands of his wife. It was only on the cry of that little girl that the jailors were awakened, who without losing time could run to inform Kamsa. Many incidents of Krishna's infancy have been described in the Bhagavata Purana, Harivamsa and Vishnu Purana. Puranic stories are symbolic, and although they narrate truthfully the Page... For Yashoda and Nanda, Krishna was the center and circumference of their life and all that was spread within the circle and outside it. It is said that an evil demoness Putana was sent by King Kamsa to destroy that imperishable Ananda, to kill that wonderful child. Putana entered Krishna's bedroom and took Krishna on her lap and offered him her poison-smeared breast to suck. Krishna squeezed it ...
... - 339 339—Tangled is the way of works in the world. When Rama the Avatar murdered Vali, 1 or Krishna, who was God himself, assassinated, to liberate his nation, his tyrant uncle Kansa, who shall say whether they did good or did evil? But this we can feel, that they acted divinely. This is a supremely elegant way of saying that all notions of good and evil are exclusively human ...
... settled conviction that that order has yet many centuries of life before it, when Krishna is growing from infancy to youth in Gokul among the obscure and the despised and the weak ones of the earth and Kansa knows not his enemy and, however he may be troubled by vague apprehensions and old prophecies and new presentiments, yet on the whole comforts himself with the thought of his great and invincible power... inevitable, and oppression was necessary that the people as a whole might be disposed to accept Nationalism, but Nationalism was not born of oppression. The oppressions and slaughters committed by Kansa upon the Yadavas did not give birth to Krishna but they were needed that the people of Mathura might look for the deliverer and accept him when he came. To hope that conciliation will kill Nationalism... Putana nor the hoofs of the demon could destroy the infant Krishna, so neither Riponism nor Poona prosecutions could check the growth of Nationalism while yet it was an indistinct force; and as neither Kansa's wiles nor his vishakanyas nor his mad elephants nor his wrestlers could kill Krishna revealed in Mathura, so neither a revival of Riponism nor the poison of Page 749 discord sown by ...
... 29 June 1960 Page 63 × The child Krishna had to take refuge at Brindavan in order to escape his uncle Kansa, the tyrant king of Mathura. ...
... ; He turns round his spear and hurls it head foremost into the hidden bottom of the ocean. You understand the Flute, you understand Vrindavan, You have not understood the killing of Kamsa, you have not understood the war of Kurukshetra. You are a perfect Vaishnava, you chant hymns to Buddha. But Vishnu and Rudra are one body, they are only different limbs ― Have you ...
... treat and compromise with the strength of Demogorgon while yet unripe so as to prolong its hour of rule for a little,—the only grace that Heaven allows to doomed institutions and forfeited powers. Like Kansa of old, it seeks to confirm its failing grip on the world by murderous guile and violence or like the Jupiter of Prometheus Unbound gropes for safety through vain diplomacies and the martyrdom of ...
... persecution, because the powers that be are afraid of the consequences which may result from their sudden success and cannot shake off the delusion that they have the strength to suppress them. When Kansa heard that Krishna was to be born to slay him, he tried to prevent the fulfilment of God's will by killing His instrument, as if the power which warned him of approaching doom had not the strength to ...
... welfare of the subjects of a cruel king like Kamsa whose pleasure consists in killing others and who mercilessly slaughtered the infants of his own weeping sister!" 43. Being welcomed with pleasing words by Nanda, Akrūra felt much relieved from the fatigue of the journey. * * * Page 136 Departure of Śrī Krsna to Mathurā Kamsa's Order (1-12) Śrī Śuka said: 1. Being... benefits. 3. After supper, the Lord conversed with Akrūra on the condition of his clansmen, the Yadavas, under Kamsa, and about other matters concerning his mission. The Lord said: 4. O dear friend! I hope your journey was pleasant. Are all our kinsmen doing well? 5. When our reputed uncle, Kamsa, the canker of our family, is there, what point is there in asking about the welfare of persons who are... This Asura was a terror even to the Devas who, though they had drunk the elixir of immortality, still felt it necessary to safeguard their lives against him. 14. This Aghāsura, who had been sent by Kamsa, was the brother of Pūtana and Baka who had met with their death at Śrī Krsna's hands. Seeing Śrī Krsna and the boys, he thought within himself: "This boy is the killer of my sister and brother. I ...
... obscurity (Krishna in Gokul growing from infancy to youth), the leaping of the Page 223 great name to light (the sudden coming from Gokul to Mathura causing amazement, alarm and fury to Kamsa), the season of trial and triumph (the hour of reckoning when the enemy"feels the grasp of the avenger on his hair and the sword of doom in his heart"), and finally the season of rule and fulfilment... of wealth and honours to teach and labour so that the good religion might spread, there Nationalism grew slowly to its strength.... Krishna came to the world to destroy the Asuric power of Kamsa, and there could be no conciliation or co-existence for them. The Moderates - Gokhale with his debating skill. Rash Behari Ghosh with his "army of literary quotations and allusions" - tried to ... the hoofs of the demon could destroy the infant Krishna, so neither Riponism nor Poona prosecutions could check the growth of Nationalism while yet it was an indistinct force; and as neither Kamsa's wiles nor his visakanyās, nor his mad elephants nor his wrestlers could kill Krishna revealed in Mathura, so neither a revival of Riponism nor the poison of discord... nor Fullerism plus ...
... other god-heroes. We should not be taken aback on seeing the name "Krishna" in unusual company and particularly linked to Kamsa. Kamsa in later tradition is notorious as an evil tyrant whom Krishna destroyed. Already "the Mahābhāshya, quoting passages from a Kāvya on the Kamsa-vadha episode, points to the pre-Christian origin" of this aspect of the Krishna saga. 2 But in the Arthaśāstra the destroyer... Age..., p. 438. 3. Aśoka, p. 208. 4. Op. cit., II, p. 587. Page 587 runs: "(I bow) to Armalāva, to Pramīla, to Mandolūka, to Ghato-bala and to the service of Krsna and Kamsa, and to Paulomī, the successful." Kangle's footnote 1 says: "krsna-karhsopacāram 'the service of Krsna and Karhsa, i.e. those who wait upon these two spirits' (Meyer). That Krsna and Karhsa here... hater of the Brāhmīnic faith' who declared T will surely cause the worship of cows, through force if need be'." Very plausibly an Asura Krishna like the "loud-yelling" chieftain is the associate of Kamsa in the Arthaśāstra. 1. Ibid., p. 586. 2. Apte, loc. cit., p. 451. 3. Hindu World: An Enclyclopedic Survey of Hinduism (George Allen & Unwin, London, 1968), Vol. I, Page 588 ...
... in the interval between Panini and Patanjali, but closer to the former on account of the reference to the prevalence of worship of the Nasatya and the bracketing of an evil spirit Krishna with Kamsa recalling the asura Krishna of the Veda, which indicates a period prior to that of the Vasudeva cult recorded by Megasthenes. On this basis, the original Arthashastra is assigned by Sethna to ...
... imitators. 338) Tangled is the way of works in the world. When Rama the Avatar murdered Vali or Krishna, who was God himself, Page 467 assassinated, to liberate his nation, his tyrant uncle Kansa, who shall say whether they did good or did evil? But this we can feel, that they acted divinely. 339) Reaction perfects & hastens progress by increasing & purifying the force within it. This is ...
... his consciousness so that the work may be done, the Avatar does it or rather the Divine in the Avatar does it. The other thing is also quite possible. Krishna could have killed Jarasandha as he did Kansa. Why did he not do it instead of fighting eighteen unprofitable battles, running away to Dwarka, and then getting J killed by others? About the wrath of the sannyasis, I also meant that they didn't ...
... I delivered Prahlada, and I protected the cowherd residents of Vraja. In the past I had the nectar churned from the ocean. I then deceived the demons and protected the demigods. I killed Kamsa, who was inimical to my devotees. I annihilated the wicked Rāvana along with his dynasty. I lifted Govardhana Hill with My left hand. I chastised the serpent Kāliya. I taught the process of ...
... Kambistholi, 262, 263 Kambojas, 234, 248, 254, 255-6, 263, 289, 290, 308, 309, 310, 311, 530, 592, 594 Kambu (Cambodia), 550 Kambujiya, Kambujiyas, 262, 309 Kambyses/Kambysoi, 262 Kamsa, 588 Kanchika-Vishnugupta, 203 Kandahār, Aśokan inscriptions: Kandahār 1, 233-5, 307-43, 591-3; Kandahār II, 347-9, 593; New Greek inscription, 356-9, 593 Kane, P. V., 5 Kangle, B. P ...
... being forced to do so through a violent, bloody revolution. It was, according to him, blatantly impossible, as impossible for instance as Kamsa suddenly becoming a lover of Krishna. Anyway, for the time being, it looked as if tyranny was in the ascendant and Kamsa was the victor. Barin and his friends became guests of the British government, and so did I. This was the Page 132 romantic story ...
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