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  • Rambhadra was the youngest and most beloved, gaining the favour of Lord Shiva and Parvati and hence called Parashurama the sixth incarnation of Lord Vishnu.

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  • Knowing his father's powers and the extent of his anger, Parashurama immediately obeyed his father, using his axe.

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  • According to one legend, king Sahasarjuna Kartavirya Arjuna was in love with the beautiful Renuka, and once when Parashurama was away, the king killed Jamadagni and his four sons to marry Renuka.

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  • Parashurama, who was not there when this happened, found his mother weeping by the piles of ashes when he arrived and his father was still raging mad.

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  • A curious legend ascribes their origin to the miraculous intervention of Parashurama, the sixth Avatar of the god Vishnu, who finding no Brahmans to release him by the accustomed ritual from the defilement of his earthly labours, dragged on to shore the bodies of fourteen barbarians that he had found washed up from the ocean, burnt them on a funeral pyre and then breathed life and

    Indian Unrest Valentine Chirol 1890

  • There's Prince Rama, who killed the demon Ravana; Vamana the dwarf; Parashurama ...

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  • There's Prince Rama, who killed the demon Ravana; Vamana the dwarf; Parashurama the vengeful; and Matsya the great fish.

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  • Rama asks Parashurama what he will give as a target to the arrow in return for his life?

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  • At this point, Parashurama feels himself devoid of the tremendous mystical energy he possessed for so long.

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  • Parashurama is an extremely powerful rishi, responsible for killing all of the world's warriors and kings 21 times.

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