Valmiki Ramayana 2.21.32: Ayodhya Kanda, Sarga 21, Shloka 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 ||
ジャマダグニの息子ラーマ（パラシュラーマ）自身も、父の言葉に従い、森の中で斧を用いて実の母レーヌカーを斬りました。
Parasurama, son of Jamadagni himself in obedience to the words of his father, decapitated his mother Renuka in the forest with an axe.
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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.
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