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●●संस्कृति मंत्रालय
 

 
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PARASURAMA AVATARA
 
पित्रोपशिक्षितो रामस्तथेति [कुरुनन्दन]।

संवत्सरं तीर्थयात्रां चरित्वाऽऽश्रममाव्रजत् ॥
 

(Thus) instructed by His father, Rama

made a pilgrimage to holy places for a

year and returned to His hermitage.
 

 
अर्जुनस्य सुता [ राजन् ] स्मरन्तः स्वपितुर्वधम् ।

एकदाऽऽश्रमतो रामे सभ्रातरि वनं गते ।

वैरं सिसाधयिषवो लब्धच्छिद्रा उपागमन् ।

दृष्ट्वाऽग्न्यगार आसीनमावेशितधियं मुनिम् ।

याच्यमानाः कृपणया राममात्राऽतिदारुणाः ।

प्रसह्य शिर उत्कृत्य निन्युस्ते क्षत्रबन्धवः ॥
 

Remembering, the killing of their

father, the sons of Arjuna, getting an

opportunity when Rama, along with

his brothers, had once gone away from

the hermitage into the forests, came (to

the hermitage) desiring to wreak
 

vengeance. They
saw
 
the
 
vengeance.
 
sage
 
They
the sage
(Jamadagni) in the fire-chamber, sitting

in meditation. Though entreated by the

pitiable mother of Rama, those extremely

cruel and base Kshatriyas forcibly chop-

ped and carried off Jamadagni's head.