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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 10, Ch. 2]
a nescient state would not be an exhibition of prowess. According to  kṣatriya  rules, an enemy should be fought face to face and with proper weapons. Then if the enemy is killed, the victor becomes famous. Kaṁsa very conscientiously deliberated upon these facts and therefore refrained from killing Devakī, although he was completely confident that his enemy had already appeared within her womb.
TEXT 22
स एष जीवन् खलु सम्परेतो वर्तेत योऽत्यन्तनृशंसितेन । देहे मृते तं मनुजाः शपन्ति गन्ता तमोऽन्धं तनुमानिनो ध्रुवम् ॥२२॥
sa eṣa jīvan khalu sampareto varteta yo 'tyanta-nṛśaṁsitena dehe mṛte taṁ manujāḥ śapanti gantā tamo 'ndhaṁ tanu-mānino dhruvam
saḥ—he; eṣaḥ—that jealous person; jīvan—while living; khalu—even; samparetaḥ—is dead; varteta—continues to live; yaḥ—anyone who; atyanta—very much; nṛśaṁsitena—by executing cruel activities; dehe—when the body; mṛte—is finished; tam—him; manujāḥ—all human beings; śapanti—condemn; gantā—he will go; tamaḥ andham—to hellish life; tanu-māninaḥ—of a person in the bodily concept of life; dhruvam—without a doubt.
TRANSLATION
A person who is very cruel is regarded as dead even while living, for while he is living or after his death, everyone condemns him. And after the death of a person in the bodily concept of life, he is undoubtedly transferred to the hell known as Andhatama.
PURPORT
Kaṁsa considered that if he killed his sister, while living he would be condemned by everyone, and after death he would go to the darkest