Ugrasena, the Yadava king of Mathura, fathered Kamsa, who would grow to overthrow him and seize the throne by force.
⚠ Bhagavata Purana 10.1.64-69 suggests Kamsa was actually the biological son of the demon Drumila who assumed Ugrasena's form, though the mainstream tradition treats Kamsa as Ugrasena's own son.
Kamsa imprisoned his cousin Devaki and her husband Vasudeva, murdering their newborns one by one to prevent the prophecy that her eighth son would destroy him. Krishna, that eighth son, was smuggled to safety at birth and grew up in hiding before returning to Mathura to fulfill the prophecy.
Krishna killed his uncle Kamsa in Mathura's wrestling arena, dragging him from his throne and slaying him barehanded, fulfilling the prophecy that Devaki's eighth son would be Kamsa's destroyer.
Kamsa imprisoned Devaki and Vasudeva on the night of their wedding after a divine voice prophesied that Devaki's eighth son would destroy him, and he killed six of their newborn sons one by one in their cell.
Kamsa overthrew his father Ugrasena, imprisoned him, and seized the throne of Mathura for himself, ruling the Yadava kingdom as a tyrant until Krishna returned to end his reign.
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