Canto 9: LiberationChapter 15: Parasurama, the Lord's Warrior Incarnation

Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Srimad Bhagavatam 9.15.14

yam ahur vasudevamsam

haihayanam kulantakam

trih-sapta-kritvo ya imam

cakre nihkshatriyam mahim

SYNONYMS

yam -- whom (Parasurama); ahuh -- all the learned scholars say; vasudeva-amsam -- an incarnation of Vasudeva, the Supreme Personality of Godhead; haihayanam -- of the Haihayas; kula-antakam -- the annihilator of the dynasty; trih-sapta-kritvah -- twenty-one times; yah -- who (Parasurama); imam -- this; cakre -- made; nihkshatriyam -- devoid of kshatriyas; mahim -- the earth.

TRANSLATION

Learned scholars accept this Parasurama as the celebrated incarnation of Vasudeva who annihilated the dynasty of Kartavirya. Parasurama killed all the kshatriyas on earth twenty-one times.

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