Shloka 9

Devanagari script

अतश्न पापान्मुच्ये5हमेष मे प्रार्थितो वर: । हृदाश्न तीर्थभूता मे भवेयुर्भुवि विश्रुता:,परशुरामजीने कहा--यदि आप सब हमारे पितर मुझपर प्रसन्न हैं और मुझे अपने अनुग्रहका पात्र समझते हैं तो मैंने जो क्रोधवश क्षत्रियवंशका विध्वंस किया है, इस कुकर्मके पापसे मैं मुक्त हो जाऊँ और ये मेरे बनाये हुए सरोवर पृथ्वीमें प्रसिद्ध तीर्थ हो जायँ। यही वर मैं आपलोगोंसे चाहता हूँ

Transliteration

ataś ca pāpān mucye’ham eṣa me prārthito varaḥ | hṛdāś ca tīrthabhūtā me bhaveyur bhuvi viśrutāḥ ||

Translation

“Therefore may I be released from sin—this is the boon I ask. And may these lakes I have made become sacred pilgrimage-fords, renowned upon the earth.”

Word by Word

अतःtherefore

अश्नI eat

पापात्from sin

मुच्येI am released / I become free

अहम्I

एषःthis

मेof me / my

प्रार्थितःrequested

वरःboon

हृदाby/with a lake (reservoir)

अश्नI eat

तीर्थभूताःhaving become sacred fords (tirthas)

मेmy

भवेयुःmay they become

भुविon earth

विश्रुताःwell-known, famous

Speaker

राम उवाच

Characters & Entities

Paraśurāma

Kṣatriya lineage (kṣatriyavaṃśa)

hṛdāḥ (lakes/reservoirs)

tīrtha (pilgrimage site)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Cross References

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Even a powerful deed done in anger creates moral residue (pāpa) that calls for acknowledgement and expiation. The verse frames atonement not only as personal purification (release from sin) but also as turning the aftermath into public good—transforming man-made lakes into tīrthas that benefit society.

What is happening in the narrative?

Paraśurāma, reflecting on the wrath-driven destruction of the Kṣatriyas, petitions for a boon: that he be freed from the sin of that act and that the reservoirs he created become celebrated pilgrimage sites on earth.