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Ranga Satagopan
• Thu Jan 04 1996 - 08:07:14 PST
> I felt the Avatara was mainly for the redemtion
> of the Dwar-palakas, cursed for human sufferring from
> their Nitya-suri status. Kamsa was one such.
This couldn't have been the purpose. The Dwarapalakas were born thrice and
were slain thrice by Narayana:
1. Hiranyaaksha, Hiranyakasipu (Varaha, Narasimha)
2. Ravana, Kumbakarna (Rama)
3. Sisupala, Dantavakra (Krsna)
Kamsa wasn't one, to my knowledge.
- Ranga
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