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 Organized Religion
King Kamsa [the demon king who wanted to kill Lord Krishna] is the typical empiricist, ever on the lookout for the appearance of the truth for the purpose of suppressing Him before He has time to develop.
The lexicographical interpretation is upheld by Kamsa as the real scientific explanation of the scriptures, and is perfectly in keeping with his dread of and aversion for the transcendental.
Kamsa is strongly persuaded that faith in the transcendental can be effectively put down by empiricism if prompt and decisive measures are adopted at the very outset.
www.stephen-knapp.com /organized_religion.htm   (1170 words)

  
 Hindu Festivals - Krishna Jayanthi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Kamsa the Lord of the Yadavas imprisoned his own father and usurped the throne of Mathura.
Kamsa, recognizing him as the long lost nephew invited Krishna and Balarama to participate in the royal wrestling festival in an attempt to kill them.
With the death of Kamsa, the true identity of Krishna as the son of Devaki was known to the people of Mathura and they welcomed him home.
www.saranam.com /Festivals/KrishnaJayanti1.asp   (1557 words)

  
 ARTICLE : Advent of Lord Krsna (2/2)
Thus Vasudeva was pleased and praised the decision of Kamsa.
Narada warned Kamsa to be careful of the friends and well wishers and all the demigods taking birth in those families.
Kamsa was made aware of his previous birth by the grace of Narada.
www.hindunet.org /srh_home/1996_9/msg00372.html   (1029 words)

  
 Carnatica.com - Kiddies' Corner: Krishna's Story - The Fall of Kamsa
He was a despot of the worst type, and crushed all opposition to his ungodly ambition of becoming the lord of the universe.
Devaki begged for mercy and promised to surrender to him all the children that may be born to her.
Kamsa hurried down to the jail, snatched the baby from the heart-broken parents, whirled it in the air and was about to dash it against a stone...!
www.carnatica.net /krishna.htm   (781 words)

  
 Krishna Book Chapter 44: The Killing of Kamsa
Kamsa resented the drums' being beaten for Krsna's victory, and he was very sorry that the wrestlers had been killed and had fled the assembly.
Kamsa was prepared for Krsna's attack, for he knew from the beginning that He was to be the cause of his death.
The wives of Kamsa and his eight brothers became aggrieved on account of their husbands' sudden deaths, and all of them were striking their foreheads and shedding torrents of tears.
www.krsnabook.com /ch44.html   (2669 words)

  
 BG16
But Narada Muni informs Kamsa that there is an imminent birth of gods in the family of Vasudeva and Nanda and that he should not trust any one.
Kamsa assuming that the gods must have already been born in the Yadava families, puts his sister and Vasudeva in jail.
Kamsa comes to know that in his previous birth he was demon Kalanemi, killed by Vishnu.
www.bhagavadgitausa.com /bg16.htm   (2366 words)

  
 KRISHNA
Kamsa’s impulsive reaction was to stop the chariot, seize Devaki and kill her on the spot.
Kamsa was satisfied with the arrangement proposed by Vasudeva for dealing with Devaki’s children and drove the chariot on without injuring Devaki.
Kamsa felt penitent and apologized to Vasudeva and Devaki for the pain he had caused them.
members.tripod.com /holy_98/krishna.htm   (1147 words)

  
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It so happened that on day, later in time, when Kamsa was driving his newly married cousin and her husband Vasudev, to their new home, a voice from the heavens intercepted him.
Kamsa’s anger knew no bounds and as he pulled the sword from its scabbard, Vasudev begged him to be a little patient.
Kamsa thought this was a good alternative to committing this murder and so threw the couple into prison.
www.indiaprofile.com /pilgrimage/mathura.htm   (1043 words)

  
 SRIMAD BHAGAVATAM: CANTO 10 - CHAPTER 4
The chaste Devakî miserable in distress said to Kamsa, her brother: 'This one is meant for your son, o good one, she is a woman not to be killed.
Kamsa immediately got up from bed, thinking, "Here is Kâla, the supreme time factor, which has taken birth to kill me!" Thus overwhelmed, Kamsa, his hair scattered on his head, at once approached the place where the child had been born.
Having uprooted all relationships with his sister because of intense selfishness, Kamsa, who was sitting on his knees, grasped the newborn child by the legs and tried to dash her against the surface of a stone.
www.srimadbhagavatam.org /canto10/chapter4.html   (4400 words)

  
 Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 10 Chapter 4   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
SB 10.4.3: Kaḿsa immediately got up from bed, thinking, "Here is Kāla, the supreme time factor, which has taken birth to kill me!" Thus overwhelmed, Kaḿsa, his hair scattered on his head, at once approached the place where the child had been born.
SB 10.4.7: Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: piteously embracing her daughter and crying, Devakī begged Kaḿsa for the child, but he was so cruel that he chastised her and forcibly snatched the child from her hands.
SB 10.4.8: Having uprooted all relationships with his sister because of intense selfishness, Kaḿsa, who was sitting on his knees, grasped the newborn child by the legs and tried to dash her against the surface of a stone.
srimadbhagavatam.com /10/4   (1780 words)

  
 Kamsa's Strategy: How to extinguish the hope of deliverance in People
As soon as Kamsa knows of the eighth child's birth, he rushes to the palace where Devaki & Vasudeva were imprisoned, to kill the child.
The next day Kamsa called a council of the men who were loyal to him, among whom was Pralamba, his chief adviser.
Kamsa told them of what had happened, of the strange shriek, of the flying child, and even of the words that he had heard: 'Your destroyer is elsewhere, already born.'
surasa.net /kamsa.html   (837 words)

  
 Krishna Book Chapter 4: Kamsa Begins His Persecutions
Kamsa was waiting to hear the news of the child's birth, and the gatekeepers immediately approached him and informed him that the child was born.
While Kamsa was speaking to his brother-in-law and sister, tears flowed from his eyes and he fell down at their feet.
The adherents of Kamsa were all influenced by the modes of passion as well as illusioned by the modes of ignorance, and their only business was to create enmity with saintly persons.
www.krsnabook.com /ch4.html   (2270 words)

  
 Document Title
Kamsa out of the love he bore for his sister decided to be the bride and groom’s charioteer for the day.
While Kamsa drove the chariot bearing Devaki and Vasudeva out of the wedding hall, a voice from the heavens boomed informing Kamsa that Devaki’s eight child would be his slayer.
Kamsa was pleased, he knew the next child was prophesized to be his slayer.
www.geocities.com /saravip/story.htm   (10316 words)

  
 Deutungen des Krishna-lila: Kamsa
Kamsa repräsentiert das materielle Bewusstsein und den Materialisten, das oder der alle möglichen Vorkehrungen trifft und sogar vor Greueltaten nicht zurückschreckt, um das Krishna-Bewusstsein oder das Erscheinen Krishnas zu verhindern.
Kamsa glaubt nur an das, was er sehen und begreifen kann, und er empfindet deswegen eine Abneigung gegen das Übernatürliche, das er als Dogmatismus und Heuchlerei unter dem Deckmantel von Religion betrachtet.
Kamsa nun dachte an Krishna in der Form, in der Er ein Feuerrad trägt, das heißt an Narayana, der in Seinen vier Händen ein Feuerrad, ein Muschelhorn, eine Lotosblüte und eine Keule hält.
www.vrindavan.de /lila/kl_kamsa.htm   (1087 words)

  
 Mike's History p 73 - Krishna. Birth and Incarnation (as Govinda.)
Kamsa at once drew his sword to kill her, but Vasudeva prevented him; to pacify Kamsa, Vasudeva offered to hand over their children from whom Kamsa apprehended death.
Kamsa hastened to the prison of his sister as soon as the guards announced the birth of the child: "You have killed all my sons; this is a daughter, spare her," begged Devaki, clasping her brother.
At Kamsa's bidding, a female demon named Putana who was devouring children, a demon Sakata who had taken the form of a cart and another who took the form of a whirlwind, Trinavarta, stole into the Gokula to make away with Krishna; but the wonder-child did away with all of them instead.
www.galileolibrary.com /history/history_page_73.htm   (2409 words)

  
 Kamsa comes alive in Orissa town - Deccan Herald   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The mythological character is king Kamsa, the evil character in Indian mythology and the uncle of Lord Sri Krishna.
Kamsa is now “ruling” over the Bargarh town as part of the annual Dhanu Yatra, an important festival of western Orissa.
The Panchayat Dharamsala within the town serves as King Kamsa’s palace and the local Radhakrishna temple, a makeshift prison where Devaki and Vasudeva, the parents of Lord Krishna were imprisoned by Kamsa and where Krishna was born.
www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/jan062004/n13.asp   (623 words)

  
 Story of the Appearance of Lord Krishna
Kamsa was the son of Ugrasena, of the Bhoja dynasty.
Kamsa knew the value of Vasudeva's word of honor, and he was convinced by his argument.
He therefore informed Kamsa that in Vrindavana personalities like Nanda Maharaja and all the other cowherd men and their wives, and on the other side Vasudeva, his father Surasena and all his relatives born in the family of Vrishni of the Yadu dynasty, along with all their friends and well-wishers, were actually demigods.
www.stephen-knapp.com /story_of_the_appearance_of_lord_krishna.htm   (3573 words)

  
 Stories of Lord Krishna   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Kamsa pulled Devaki down by her hair, drew his sword and prepared to kill her on the spot, but Vausdeva begged for his bride's life and promised to let him kill the eighth child, so that the oracle would not be fulfilled.
Kamsa was delirious with fear waiting for Krishna to arrive, and unable to sleep through the night because of bad dreams.
Kamsa, the child abuser who torments Devaki and Vasudev (Krishna's parents), was known as Devaki's brother, but that was just a simple way of describing the relationship.
surrealist.org /gurukula/krishna.html   (6508 words)

  
 Lord Balaram's Appearance Day
Devaki begged Kamsa not to kill her child, as it was a girl and the prediction was that her eighth son would kill him.
Kamsa was now petrified, and begged Vasudeva and Devaki for forgiveness for killing their six children, but by the next day his normal demoniac nature was back.
Kamsa then spoke with Nanda Maharaja and pointed out how Kamsa had arranged this whole wrestling match because he had heard that the boys of Nanda Maharaja were supposed to be powerful.
www.salagram.net /parishad140.html   (11938 words)

  
 Krishna
Tradition holds that Krishna saw Vishnu in a vision in which the former deity told Krishna to destroy Kamsa son of a demon, a tyrannical ruler of the world.
Kamsa already killed her first six sons because he had been told one of her sons would kill him.
He is alleged to have defeated numerous dragons and monsters, and eventually as predicted, killed his half-uncle the tyrannical king Kamsa.
www.pantheon.org /articles/k/krishna.html   (340 words)

  
 KAMSA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Kamsa had great affection for Devaki and considered her as his own sister and celebrated her marriage to Vasudeva with great enthusiasm.
Kamsa, on hearing this voice, immediately unsheathed his sword and decided to kill Devaki on the spot to prevent the predicted catastrophe.
The Magadha Emperor, Jarasandha, gave his daughters in marriage to Kamsa, who harboured increasing hatred against the Yadavas, from whom he apprehended the threat to his life, and also because, according to Narada’s words to Kamsa, the Gods had incarnated as Yadavas with the advent of Krishna.
members.rediff.com /saivani/Kamsa.htm   (420 words)

  
 Lord Krishna, His teachings and Lilas
Kamsa soon got up from his bed, repaired to the place where Devaki was confined, and entered the room in which she was lying.
It is not proper for you to kill a female child." Kamsa threatened his sister and seized the child by her hands and dashed it on a stone.
Kamsa was struck with wonder when he heard the words of the child.
www.aryabhatt.com /krishnalilas/krishnalilas3.htm   (573 words)

  
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The eighth son of Devaki, your sister, will be the one responsible for your death." Kamsa was enraged beyond control and imprisoned Devaki, his sister and Vasudeva her husband.
The baby uttered cries which awakened Kamsa, and then happily he went to the prison chamber and snatched the girl baby and as he lifted her in the air, the baby, who was an incarnation of the Devi herself, laughed in glee "Kamsa, your real enemy is still alive.
Kamsa was outraged beyond wits and started a killing spree of all boys at that age in his kingdom.
members.tripod.com /~srinivasp/mythology/krishna.html   (695 words)

  
 Baba's Divine Discourse, Sri Krishna Janmaashtami 2003: GOD'S BIRTHPLACE IS A PURE HEART
Kamsa became restless and agitated as he came to know that Krishna was being brought up elsewhere.
Kamsa sent his messengers to Repalle to bring Krishna and Balarama to Mathura to attend some Yajna which he was performing.
They were already suffering from deep frustration and anguish over the atrocities committed by Kamsa and they prayed to Krishna to come to their rescue.
www.eaisai.com /baba/docs/d030819.html   (3417 words)

  
 IndiaParenting.com - Stories of Krishna - Krishna Returns to Mathura   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
When Kamsa heard about Krishna, he was sure that Krishna was Devaki’s eight born child, born to destroy him.
That Krishna was a divine being born to kill Kamsa.
Kamsa then told Krishna and Balrama that his foremost wrestlers Mushtika and Chanura had heard of their strength and valor and would like to challenge them.
www.indiaparenting.com /stories/krishna/krishna03.shtml   (341 words)

  
 The Slaying Of Kamsa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Kamsa threw Vasudeva and Devaki into the prison and planned to invite Krishna to Mathura and kill him there.
Kamsa had deliberately stationed the elephant there to kill Krishna.
Krishna pounced on Kamsa, caught hold of his hair and pushed him to the ground.
www.freeindia.org /biographies/gods/krishna/page4.htm   (232 words)

  
 India Vilas Kids Corner
Kamsa also sent other demons in the form of a mighty bull, in the form of a wild horse and all these demon-forms perished at Krishna’s hands and gained their deliverance.
Kamsa had confided in Akrura that the plan was to station a mighty elephant at the entrance to the tournament grounds and to drive the animal towards Balarama and Krishna as soon as they entered and crush them to death under the feet of the elephant.
Kamsa was killed by Krishna, the eighth child of Devaki.
indiavilas.com /kidscorner/krishna.asp   (5234 words)

  
 The Devi Bhagavatam: The Fourth Book: Chapter 21
The Prârabdha Karma, those acts out of all the previous acts done in previous births that are fully mature and ready to yield their fruits, cannot be averted; their effects must have to be experienced and then they can die away; they cannot be expiated by penances or any other remedial measures.
Then the King Kamsa told his ministers that the Heavenly voice told that the eighth son would he the cause of his death; and so there was no necessity to kill that child.
Kamsa, of little understanding brought back the son of Vâsudeva and killed him by dashing him against a stone and was relieved.
www.sacred-texts.com /hin/db/bk04ch21.htm   (1825 words)

  
 Krishna Kills Kamsa
When Krsna dragged Kamsa from the dias, He was pulling him by the hair, because Kamsa had caught Devaki by the hair on her wedding day.
He specifically jumped on Kamsa's chest because Kamsa had struck Vasudeva on the chest with rocks during the time he was in prison.
When Kamsa's body was later dragged down to the ghata, it made a gully called panca-pada which is now the sewage drain behind the Matha.
www.purebhakti.com /lectures/lecture20000927.shtml   (685 words)

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