འཁར་བ་

འཁར་བ། (Wyl. 'khar ba ) Pron.: kharwa

འཁར་བ།	འཁར་བ།	འཁར་བ།		༼ཐ་མི་དད་པ་༽
past	pres.	fut.	imp.	v.i.

• Skt. कंसम्, kaṁsa, Pron.: kansa. From Sanskrit: a vessel made of metal, drinking vessel, cup, goblet | a noun ending in | followed by | in a compound does not change its final | a particular measure (= two Āḍhakas | = one Āḍhaka | a metal, tutanag or white copper, brass, bell-metal | N. of a king of Mathurā (son of Ugra-sena and cousin of the Devakī who was mother of Kṛishṇa [Ugra-sena being brother of Devaka, who was father of Devakī]  ; he is usually called the uncle, but was really a cousin of Kṛishṇa, and became his implacable enemy because it had been prophesied to Kan6sa 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 Kṛishṇa, the latter receives epithets like | conqueror of Kan6sa | N. of a place [Mahavyutpatti] [Sanskrit] MVP MW