Kamsa

Indian mythology · king · tyranny, prophesied doom

The tyrant of Mathura, warned that his sister's eighth child would kill him. He imprisoned her, murdered her infants, and sent demon after demon against the escaped child, who returned at sixteen and threw him from his own throne.

Stories

The Death of Kamsa

The tyrant of Mathura summons the boys he failed to kill to a rigged wrestling match. Krishna and Balarama break his champions, and Krishna drags his uncle from the throne by the hair, freeing Devaki and Vasudeva from the prison where their children were murdered.