Shloka 60
अम्बा–राम–भीष्म संवादः
Amba–Rama–Bhishma Dialogue on Vow and Refuge
अपि यत्र त्वया राम कृतं शौचं पुरा पितु: । तत्राहमपि हत्वा त्वां शौचं कर्तास्मि भार्गव
api yatra tvayā rāma kṛtaṃ śaucaṃ purā pituḥ | tatrāham api hatvā tvāṃ śaucaṃ kartāsmi bhārgava ||
Rāma sprach: „An eben dem Ort, wo du einst das Reinigungsritual für deinen Vater vollzogen hast, o Rāma, dort werde auch ich — nachdem ich dich erschlagen habe — dasselbe Ritual vollziehen, o Bhārgava.“
राम उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights how ritual duty (śauca) can be invoked within a framework of violent honor and retaliation: the speaker frames killing as leading to a consequential obligation—performing purification—showing the tension between dharma as ritual propriety and dharma as ethical restraint.
Rāma addresses Bhārgava (Paraśurāma) with a threat: he says that at the very place where Bhārgava earlier performed purification for his father, Rāma will kill him and then perform the purificatory rite there—turning Bhārgava’s past act into a grim foreshadowing of his own death.