Shloka 15

जामदग्न्यस्य विलापः, प्रतिज्ञा, क्षत्रिय-निग्रहः, दानयज्ञश्च

Jāmadagnya Rāma’s Lament, Vow, Kṣatriya Suppression, and Gifts

Devanagari script

एवं वैरमभूत्‌ तस्य क्षत्रियैलोकवासिभि: । पृथिवी चापि विजिता रामेणामिततेजसा,इस तरह उनका सम्पूर्ण जगतके क्षत्रियोंक साथ वैर हुआ था और उसी समय अमित तेजस्वी परशुरामजीने सारी पृथ्वी जीती थी

Transliteration

evaṁ vairam abhūt tasya kṣatriyair lokavāsibhiḥ | pṛthivī cāpi vijitā rāmeṇāmitatejasā ||

Translation

So geriet er in Feindschaft mit den Kṣatriyas, die in der ganzen Welt wohnten; und eben damals eroberte Rāma (Paraśurāma) von unermesslichem Glanz die ganze Erde.

Word by Word

एवम्thus, in this way

वैरम्enmity

अभूत्arose, came to be

तस्यof him, his

क्षत्रियैःby/with the kshatriyas

लोकवासिभिःby/with the world-dwellers (people)

पृथिवीthe earth

चand

अपिalso, even

विजिताconquered

रामेणby Rama (Parashurama)

अमिततेजसाby (one) of immeasurable splendor

Speaker

राम उवाच

Characters & Entities

Rāma (Paraśurāma)

Kṣatriyas

Pṛthivī (the Earth)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights how unchecked hostility can expand into a world-wide feud, and it juxtaposes that social rupture with the fact of overwhelming conquest. Implicitly it invites reflection on dharma: power may win territory, but ethical order depends on restraint and right conduct, not merely victory.

What is happening in the narrative?

Rāma (Paraśurāma) describes the situation in which enmity arose between a certain person (referred to as 'tasya') and the Kṣatriyas across the world, and he notes that at that time Paraśurāma, endowed with immeasurable splendor, conquered the earth.