Parashurama Jayanthi on Akshaya Threethiya

Courtesy: Sri.Narahari
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Parashurama Jayanthi
ಅಂಗಾರವರ್ಣಮಭಿತೋಂಡಬಹಿ: ಪ್ರಭಾಭಿ-
ರ್ವ್ಯಾಪ್ತಂ ಪರಶ್ವಧಧನುರ್ಧರಮೇಕವೀರಮ್ |
ಧ್ಯಾಯೇದಜೇಶಪುರುಹೂತಮುಖೈಸ್ತುವದ್ಭಿ-
ರಾವೀತಮಾತ್ಮಪದವೀಂ ಪ್ರತಿಪಾದಯಂತಮ್ ||
(ಇತಿ ಶ್ರೀಮದಾನಂದತೀರ್ಥ ಭಗವತ್ಪಾದಾಚಾರ್ಯಕೃತತಂತ್ರಸಾರಸಂಗ್ರಹಸ್ಠ ಪರಶುರಾಮಧ್ಯಾನಮ್)
ಕ್ಷತ್ರ ಕ್ಷಯಾಯ ವಿಧಿನೋಪಹೃತಂ ಮಹಾತ್ಮಾ
ಬ್ರಹ್ಮಧೃಗುಜ್ಜಿತಪಥಂ ನರಕಾರ್ತಿಲಿಪ್ಸು |
ಉದ್ಧಂತ್ಯಸಾವವನಿಕಂಟಕಮುಗ್ರವೀರ್ಯ-
ಸ್ತ್ರಿ:ಸಪ್ತಕೃತ್ವ ಉರುಧಾರಪರಶ್ವಧೇನ ||
angaaravarNamabhitOnDabahi: prabhaabhi-
rvyaaptam parashvadhadhanurdharamEkavIram |
dhyaayEdajEshapuruhUtamuKaistuvadbhi-
raavItamaatmapadavIm pratipaadayantam ||
iti shrImadaanandatIrtha bhagavatpaadaachaaryakRuta
tantrasaarasangrahasTha parashuraamadhyaanam)
kShatra kShayaaya vidhinOpahRutam mahaatmaa
brahmadhRugujjitapatham narakaartilipsu |
uddhantyasaavavanikanTakamugravIrya-
stri:saptakRutva urudhaaraparashvadhEna ||
Vaishaka Shukla Triteeya is the Sri Parashurama Janma Dina.
Parashurama is the direct incarnation of Srimannaaraayana. Parashurama
or Bhargavaraama is hailed as the sixth incarnation of Lord Vishnu.
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).
Pitru vakya paripalaka Parashurama -
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.
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.
Fight came to an end : 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. (PLEASE NOTE : Parashurama knows
all the weapons. There is no weapon which is not known to him, as he
is paramathma's incarnation. This is just pretending lokareethya.
)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."
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 namaha".
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 which are popularly known as Parashurama kshetras and
are called as 'Parashurama Srishti' are :
Chiplun
Udupi
Subramanya
Kollur
Shankaranarayana
Koteshwara
Kumbasi (Annegudde)
Gokarna
Bhargava Raama and Raghukula Raama –
Sri Raamachandra broke the Shivadhanassu in the "Seetha Swayamvara".
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 as A CHIRANJEEVI -

There is a traditional saying about sapta chiranjeevigalu, which is popular as :
ಆಶ್ವತ್ಥಾಮೋ ಬಲಿವ್ಯಾಸ: ಹನುಮಾಂಶ್ಚ ವಿಭೀಶನ:|
ಕೃಪ: ಪರಶುರಾಮಶ್ಚ ಸಪ್ತೈತೇ ಚಿರಂಜೀವಿನ: |
AshwatthaamO balivyaasa: hanumaanshcha vibhIshana:|
kRupa: parashuraamashcha saptaitE chiranjeevina: |
आश्वत्थामो बलिव्यास: हनुमांश्च विभीशन:।
कृप: परशुरामश्च सप्तैते चिरंजीविन: ।
Ashwatthama, Bali, Vyasa, Hanuman, Vibhishana, Kripa and Parashurama-
these are the seven eternal, ageless, immortal souls according to our
traditional belief.

It is believed that Parashurama is still doing tapassu at Mahendra
parvatha, for the peace and happiness of the world.

ಹರ ವೈಷ್ಣವೋತ್ತಮ, ವಾಯು ಜೀವೋತ್ತಮ, ಹರಿ ಸರ್ವೋತ್ತಮ

हर वैष्णवोत्तम, वायु जीवोत्तम, हरि सर्वोत्तम

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