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Parashurama Jayanthi

aMgaaravarNamabhitO MDabahi: prabhaabhi-

rvyaaptaM parashvadhadhanurdharamEkavIram |

dhyaayEdajEshapuruhUtamuKaistuvadbhi-

raavItamaatmapadavIM pratipaadayaMtam ||

 

 

kShatra kShayaaya vidhinOpahRutaM mahaatmaa

brahmadhRugujjitapathaM narakaartilipsu |

uddhaMtyasaavavanikaMTakamugravIrya-

stri:saptakRutva urudhaaraparashvadhEna ||

Vaishaka Shukla Triteeya is the Sri Parashurama Janma Dina. Parashurama is the direct incarnation of Srimannaaraayana.

 

 

 

 

Since

his childhood, he used to move around with his formidable weapon,

Parashu, meaning axe. Therefore he was called PARASHURAAMA.

 

 

Parashurama was born to Jamadagni Rushi and Renuka Dampathigalu. (Jamadagni is the son of Satyavathi and Rucheeka Rushigalu).

Once

Renukadevi, was fascinated by the beautiful lovemaking of Gandharva

Chitraratha with his wives in water, while she went to the river to

fetch water. Her momentary lapse into the enchantment, made her return

home late. Jamadagni, the visionary had already known the reason of

her late-coming and he, was terribly agitated. He asked his four sons

to kill their mother, Renuka as punishment. But they refused to do so.

Only Parashuram, had the courage. He obeyed his father`s order and

killed his mother as well as his four brothers. When Jamadagni, calmed

down, and asked for boon in lieu of his marvelous devotion to his

father, Parashuram entreated Jamadagni to restore life in the dead

bodies. Jamadagni resurrected all. This prayer shows the love that

Parashuram had for his dear ones. Thus Parashurama proved that he is

pitru vakya paripalaka.

In

both Raamaavathara & Parashuraamaavatara he showed the Pitru Vakya

Paripalana is everyone’s duty. PARASHURMA IS A CHIRANJEEVI

Parashurama’s well known desciples were -

1. Bheeshma - Bheeshma learned for nearly 500 years from Parashurama.

2.. Dronacharya - Gurugalu of Pandavaru & Kauravaru

 

 

3.

Karna - Karna had not told about his Caste (he himself was not

aware of his caste) . Parashurama had taught him all lessons.

Subsequently Parashurama came to know that Karna is a Kshatriya by

birth, and he cursed him that Karna will not remember the Vital Mantra

in the war field. Thus, when Karna and Arjuna square off on

Kurukushetra, Karna loses his life to Arjuna simply because he could

not remember the vital Mantra to invoke Brahmastra

4. Parashurama - Bheeshmacharya - Amba

sought refuge with Parashurama who ordered Bhishma to marry Amba.

Bhishma refused saying that he is ready to leave his life at the

command of his teacher but not the promise that he had made. Upon the

refusal Parasurama called him for a fight at Kurukshetra. At the

battlegrounds, while Bhishma was on a chariot, he saw his guru on the

ground. He requested Parasurama to be equal to him by taking a chariot

and Kavacham Parasurama blessed Bhishma with the power of divine

vision and asked him to look again. When Bhishma looked at his guru

with the divine eye-sight, he saw the Earth as Parasurama’s chariot,

the four Vedas as the horses, the Upanishads as the reins, Vayu as the

sarathy (Charioteer) and the Vedic goddesses Gayatri, Savitri &

Saraswati as the Kavacha. Bhishma got down from the chariot and

sought the blessings of Parasurama to protect his dharma, along with

the permission to battle against his teacher. Parasurama was pleased

and said to Bhishma that if he had not behaved in this manner,

Parasurama would have cursed him, for it is the duty of warriors who

fight against elders to not abandon the traditions of humility and

respect for elders. Parasurama blessed him and advised him to protect

his dharma of bramacharya as Parasurama himself must fight to fulfil

his dharma of fighting to uphold his word as given to Amba. They fought

for 23 days without conclusion. Parasurama is a chiranjeevi

(immortal), and Bhishma had a boon that let him choose the time of his

death. Two versions exist about how their battle came to and end.

As

per one, On the 22nd night, Bhishma prayed to his ancestors to help him

end the battle. His ancestors gave him a weapon which was not known to

Parasurama. They told him that it would put Parasurama to sleep in the

battlefield.. A person who sleeps in the battlefield is considered to be

dead as per Vedas. They advised Bhishma to call back the weapon at the

end of day after sunset so that Parasurama will come back to his sense

and that shall bring the end to war. However the weapon was never used

as Bhishma walked out of the war.

 

 

Why Parashurama toured the world 21 times and killed many kshatriyas?

There was a king names Karthaveeryarjuna, King of Mahishmati, son of Krutaveerya who was a strong devotee of Sri Dattatreya and blessed with his invincibility. He

possessed the strength of a thousand arms on the battlefront. He had

defeated Raavana at war and was reigning at Mahishmati, full of glory

and arrogance.

Once

King Karthaveeryarjuna went on hunting and was tired, thirsty and

hungry and came to the Jamadagni Rushi’s ashrama. The sage Jamadagni

arranged the entire troup of Karthaveeryarjuna, with a royal feast and

felt very happy. The king enquired the sage as to how come you have

prepared such a delicious food within a short period of time. Then the

sage told him that he has Cow called Kamadhenu which can give anything

we require and because of that only that he could give such a good food

so quick.

Karthaveeryarjuna

demanded the cow, but the sage refused to give the Kamadhenu. Then the

king ordered his solders to take away the cow by force. By that time,

Parashurama who had gone out for collecting wood for Yagna, returned

and got angry over the king, went to Mahishmati, where they had carried

the cow and had a fierce fight with the solders, killed all the

solders. Then came the King who had 1000 arms with the Anugraha of

Dattatreya, and the two were engaged in a fierce battle, finally

Parashurama killed the King alongwith his 1000 arms. He brought back

the Kamadhenu.

Jamadagni

even though was happy with the return of Kamadhenu, asked Parashurama

to go on a piligrimage tour for the parihaara of the sin for having

killed so many people, which Parashurama accepted.

While

Parashurama was away, the sons of the King Karthaveeryarjuna, attacked

Jamadagni Rushi’s ashram and killed Jamadagni, who was on a penace, in

front of Renuka and Jamadagni was beheaded and took the head of the

sage to Mahishmati. Parashurama, on his return was angry, he picked his

Axe and marched towards Mahishmati. On

reaching the city, he first butchered the guards at the main entrance.

Breaking down the heavy gate, with his eyes like a couple of fireballs,

he stalked to the palace like an enraged lion. There he destroyed the

whole army, which came to attack him. He killed all the princes, picked

up his father’s head and returned to the ashram. There the children

performed all the formalities in honor of the departed soul. Then

Parashurama vowed : “All these kings are evil men. They stole the cow

which had fed them; they killed my father and made my mother suffer

widowhood. This entire kingly class should be destroyed. The pious

cannot live in peace till then. Let me sharpen the axe. I am going to

wipe out the whole lot of them.â€

Carrying

the axe on his shoulder, he toured the earth twenty-one times chopped

off all the anogant Kshatriya, wiping out the entire royalty and

distributed the entire kings’ properties to Brahmanaas as daana. He did

not kill those kings who performed religious sacrifices (’yajnas’) and

kings like Janaka Maharaaja were thus saved; he did not kill marrying

princes, and thus king Dasharatha and others were spared. He did not

attack women. In fact, it is said that upon knowing that Parashurama

would not harm women, some Kshatriya princes donned the robes of women

and escaped amidst female groups. One such person came to be known a

‘Nari-kavacha’ (one who sought protection amidst women.)

Parashurama kShetra –

After

touring 21times for kshatriya samhaara, and killing majority of

Kshatriya Kings and got possession of their entire kingdom, Parashurama

made the daana of his entire possession to brahmanas. He was not left

with any place to stay. That is why at the time of making any daana one

should say “Parashuramaaya namahaâ€.

Then

Parashurama threw his axe on the western ocean and moved the sea for

some distance, and converted the sealand into land (bhoomi) which area

is called as Parashurama Kshetra.

Eight kshetras are popularly known as Parashurama kshetras and are called as ‘Parashurama Srishti’.

ChiplunUdupiSubramanyaKollurShankaranarayanaKoteshwaraKumbasi (Annegudde)Gokarna

 

 

Bhargava Raama and Raghukula Raama –

Sri

Raamachandra broke the Shivadhanassu in the “Seetha Swayamvaraâ€. After

the broking of Shivadhanassu, Parashurama came near Sriramachandra and

told him to lift his dhanassu. Sriramachandra lifted the dhanassu with

ease and used an arrow to kill the asura named “atula†who was hiding

in Parashurama. This Atula named asura was knowing that Sri Vishnu will

never be defeated. He was blessed with a vara that he will not die

unless Sri Mahavishnu or his avatara is defeated. So he was hiding in

Parashurama, having aware of the fact that Parashurama is Vishnu’s

avatara and he will never be defeated.

Parashurama

told Sriramachandra (who is other incarnation) to use his arrow on

Parashurama, and pretended to be defeated by Ramachandra, which

prompted Atula to come out of Parashurama and then Rama killed Atula.

Parashurama or Bhargavaraama

is hailed as the sixth incarnation of Lord Vishnu. There is a

traditional saying about sapta chiranjeevigalu, which is popular :

‘Ashwatthamo Bali Vyasah

Hanumanscha Vibhishanah

Kripah Parashuramascha

Saptaite Chirajeevinah’

Ashwatthama,

Bali, Vyasa, Hanuman, Vibhishana, Kripa and Parashurama- these are the

seven eternal, ageless, immortal souls according to our traditional

belief.

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