Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c7.2667

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5) Kaṃsa's excitement. The information imparted by Nārada upset Kaṃsa much. He shut his father Ugrasena in prison and himself became King. He deputed Asuras like Pralamba, Cāṇūra, Tṛṇāvarta, Muṣṭika, Ariṣṭa, Keśi, Dhenuka, Vivida and Pūtanā to harass the Yādavas, the Andhakas and the Vṛṣṇis. After the death of Kirtimān, Devakī, in the prison, delivered five sons. (See under Kaṃsa. Para 2 for the previous history of the first six sons of Devakī). Kaṃsa killed the five children also as soon as they were born.