Kamsa

According to Hindu mythology Kamsa (in Sanskrit language: 'bronze') was a despotic king of Mathura (a city north of Agra, in Uttar Pradesh).

His name and legends do not appear in the Rig-veda (the oldest text in India, from the middle of the 2nd millennium BC). The first appearance of him is found in the Majábhaata (epic-religious text from the 3rd century BC).

The flying sage Nárada predicted that the eighth son of Devaki would kill him. To avoid that fate, the tyrant imprisoned his cousin Devaki and Vasudeva, newly married. Kamsa killed each of Devaki's first six sons with his own hands. The seventh child was miraculously transferred from the womb of Devaki (in prison) to the womb of Rojini (the wife of Nanda, a chief cowherd in Vrindavan). The boy was formally named as Rama, but due to his great strength they called him Bala Rama ('strong Rama'), Bala Deva or Bala Bhadra..

The couple's eighth child was Krishna, the incarnation of Visnu. To save him from death, his father miraculously took him out of the cell and took him to Vrindavan (10 km away), where she surreptitiously replaced him during his sleep with a baby girl that Nanda's wife, Yashoda, had just given birth to. He returned to the cell, where Yashoda's daughter - who was actually the material energy of Krishna, known as Durgá - made herself known to Kamsa and warned him that the son who would kill him had already been born and that he could do nothing. against that.

When Kamsa was informed of the birth and concealment of Krishna, he ordered the death of all the children in the region.

Krisná was saved, because he had been hidden in the village of Gokula (Vrindávan, a place 10 km from Mathurá), where he was raised by Nanda and Yashoda and where he performed numerous heroic acts, killing demons and demons that he sent his uncle Kamsa.

Kamsa had as an ally the Vindhya sorcerer-king Kalayeni, whose daughter Nisumba he had married.

When he reached the age of 16, Krishna participated in a circus fight in Mathura, killed all the gladiators that Kamsa put against him, and punched his uncle the king to death. He then freed his parents Vasudeva and Devakí, prisoners of Kamsa.