kaṃsá as, am, m. n. (√ kam, [Uṇ. iii, 62]), a vessel made of metal, drinking vessel, cup, goblet, [AV. x, 10, 5]; [AitBr.]; [ŚBr.] &c.
(a noun ending in as followed by in a compound does not change its final, cf. ayas-kaṃsa, &c., [Pāṇ. viii, 3, 46])
a particular measure (= two Āḍhakas, [Car.]; = one Āḍhaka, [L.])
a metal, tutanag or white copper, brass, bell-metal
kaṃsá (as), m. N. of a king of Mathurā (son of Ugra-sena and cousin of the Devakī who was mother of Kṛṣṇa [Ugra-sena being brother of Devaka, who was father of Devakī]; he is usually called the uncle, but was really a cousin of Kṛṣṇa, and became his implacable enemy because it had been prophesied to Kaṃsa that he would be killed by a child of Devakī; as the foe of the deity he is identified with the Asura Kālanemi; and, as he was ultimately slain by Kṛṣṇa, the latter receives epithets like kaṃsa-jit, conqueror of Kaṃsa, &c.), [MBh.]; [VP.]; [BhP.] &c.
N. of a place g. takṣaśilādi, [Pāṇ. iv, 3, 93]