Shloka 2.21.32
अयोध्याकाण्डे एकविंशः सर्गः — Lakṣmaṇa’s militant counsel and Rāma’s dharma-based persuasion of Kausalyā
जामद्ग्न्येन रामेण रेणुका जननी स्वयम्।कृत्ता परशुनाऽरण्ये पितुर्वचनकारिणा।।2.21.32।।
jāmadagnyena rāmeṇa reṇukā jananī svayam |
kṛttā paraśunā ’raṇye pitur vacana-kāriṇā || 2.21.32 ||
Rāma Jāmadagnya (Paraśurāma) himself, obeying his father’s word, cut down his own mother Reṇukā in the forest with an axe.
Parasurama, son of Jamadagni himself in obedience to the words of his father, decapitated his mother Renuka in the forest with an axe.
It presents an extreme exemplar of obedience to a father’s command, used rhetorically to argue that pitṛ-vākya was treated as a decisive dharmic imperative in traditional memory.
Rama continues listing renowned precedents to justify his own acceptance of Daśaratha’s order.
Uncompromising obedience and discipline (niyama) framed as fidelity to duty.