Kaṁsa untranslated

Kaṁsa 01. Another name, according to the scholiast, for Brahmadatta, king of Benares and father of Samuddajā. Ja.vi.198 (25).

Kaṁsa 02. King of Benares, and called Bārāṇasiggaha because he was ruler of Benares. According to the Seyyajātaka (Ja 282, Ja.ii.403), he was the king who was seized by the monarch of Kosala, owing to the treachery of a disloyal courtier, and who was later set free on account of his great piety. In the Ekarājajātaka, which purports to relate the same story, and again in the Mahā Sīlavajātaka (Ja 51), the king is referred to by other names. We probably have here a confusion of legends due to an effort to make three similar stories into one and the same.

It is probably this same Kaṁsa Bārāṇasiggaha who is referred to in the Tesakuṇajātaka (Ja 521), by the owl Vessantara (Ja.v.112). There the scholiast explains Bārāṇasiggaha as catūhi saṅgahavatthūhi Bārāṇasiṁ gahetvā vattanto.

Kaṁsa 03. Son of Mahā Kaṁsa and brother of Upakaṁsa and Devagabbhā.

Later he became king of Asitañjana in Kaṁsabhoga in the Uttarāpatha.

He was killed by Vasudeva, one of the Andhakaveṇhudāsaputtā (Ja.iv.79f).