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Noun
1. a member of the Siouan people of the Kansas river valley in Kansas
(synonym) Kansas
(hypernym) Dhegiha
2. the Dhegiha dialect spoken by the Kansa people
(synonym) Kansas
(hypernym) Dhegiha

v. be deceived

Kamsa, Kansa (Sanskrit) A tyrannical king of Mathura in ancient India, evil uncle of Krishna. When it was foretold that the eighth child of Devaki would kill him, he endeavored to destroy all of her children; so the parents fled with Krishna, their eighth child. Then Kansa ordered all male children of the land to be killed, but Krishna escaped -- a legend paralleling the massacre of the infants by King Herod of Palestine in the New Testament. In the legends surrounding great religious figures, "everyone of them, whether at their birth or afterwards, is searched for, and threatened with death (yet never killed) by an opposing power (the world of Matter and Illusion), whether it be called a king Kamsa, king Herod, or king Mara (the Evil Power)" (BCW 14:141). Thus Kamsa in one aspect stands for the opposing power in initiation rites. Krishna, as it was predicted, finally killed his persecutor.{SD 2:48, 504n, 604n; BCW 8:378}