Shloka 67
कालनेमिरिति ख्यातो दानवानां महाबल: । स कंस इति विख्यात उग्रसेनसुतो बली
kālanemir iti khyāto dānavānāṁ mahābalaḥ | sa kaṁsa iti vikhyāta ugrasenāsuto balī ||
വൈശമ്പായനൻ പറഞ്ഞു—ദാനവരിൽ മഹാബലവാനായി ‘കാലനേമി’ എന്നു ഖ്യാതനായവൻ, അതേ ഉഗ്രസേനന്റെ ബലവാനായ പുത്രനായി ‘കംസ’ എന്ന നാമത്തിൽ പ്രസിദ്ധനായി.
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse conveys a moral-cosmic idea central to the epic: adharma is not merely a single event but a recurring force that can re-emerge through rebirth, and the preservation of dharma involves recognizing and confronting such recurring patterns of destructive power.
In the Aṁśāvataraṇa (partial-incarnation) account, Vaiśampāyana identifies a continuity of beings across births: the Dānava Kālanemi is said to have become Kaṁsa, the powerful son of Ugrasena, thereby linking earlier asuric hostility to later historical events in the Yādava context.