1. Kamsa.-Another name, according to the scholiast, for Brahmadatta, king of Benares and father of Samuddajá. J.vi.198 (25).
2. Kamsa.-King of Benares, and called Báránasiggaha because he was ruler of Benares. According to the Seyya Játaka (J.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 Ekarája Játaka, which purports to relate the same story, and again in the Mahásílava Játaka, 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 Kamsa Báránasiggaha who is referred to in the Tesakuna Játaka, by the owl Vessantara (J.v.112). There the scholiast explains Báránasiggaha as catúhi sangahavatthúhi Báránasim gahetvá vattanto.
3. Kamsa.-Son of Mahákamsa and brother of Upakamsa and Devagabbhá.
Later he became king of Asitańjana in Kamsabhoga in the Uttarápatha.
He was killed by Vasudeva, one of the Andhakavenhudá-saputtá (J.iv.79f).