2017-05-08 Mon

We hope that you are staying in touch with our ongoing trivia. We saw the five avatars of Vishnu with their stories as for why and when the Lord took incarnations.

Today we will be discussing the fifth Avatar of Vishnu i.e. Parshuram.

He was a great devotee of Lord Shiva and was trained under him. Because of Parshuram’s warfare skills, it was merely impossible for anyone to defeat him. He was one of the strongest Brahmin kshatriya and also an immortal!

One of his popular story goes like this…

Once there was a king named Kartavirya Arjuna who came with his army to Parshuram’s father's ashram. He was served the food with the help of divine cow kamadhenu. But the king was not satisfied by this and asked for the animal. Jamadagni refused to this and he was killed. Parshuram on hearing this was very angry and killed the king along with his army. He took a vow to kill all the Kshatriya twenty-one times. No one could stop this except his grandfather Rishi Rucheeka.

To commemorate this great Avatar of Vishnu, India Post issued a stamp depicting a whole scene of Parshuram killing all the Kshatriya.

To read our past series on incarnation of Lord Vishnu on Earth click here.

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