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A short before a cluster is heavy.

So the short u उ before the two consonants m म् bh भ् here is a heavy vowel —

kumbhas कुम्भस्

Actually, all vowels before clusters are heavy, not just the shorts. The U ऊ before a cluster here —

pUrNam पूर्णम्

is heavy anyway, because of dIrghaJca >.