kaṃsaḥ

Dictionary meanings for kaṃsaḥ from Apte and Monier-Williams.

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kaṃsaḥ

Normalized lookup: kamsah

Apte Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1 A drinking vessel, cup, can, goblet.

2 Bell-metal, white copper.

3 A particular mea- [Page0365-1b+ 45] sure known as āḍhaka, q. v. saḥ N. of a king of Mathurā, son of Ugrasena and enemy of Kṛṣṇa. [He is identified with the Asura Kāla- nemi, and acted inimically towards Kṛṣṇa and became his implacable foe. The circumstance which made him so was the following. While, after the mar- riage of Devakī with...

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