Shloka 9
त्रि:सप्तकृत्वो वसुधां कृत्वा निः:क्षत्रियां प्रभु: । इहेदानीं ततो राम: कर्मणो विरराम ह,“शक्तिशाली परशुरामजी इक्कीस बार इस पृथ्वीको क्षत्रियोंसे शून्य करके यहीं आनेके पश्चात् अब उस कर्मसे विरत हो गये हैं”
triḥ-saptakṛtvo vasudhāṁ kṛtvā niḥkṣatriyāṁ prabhuḥ | ihedānīṁ tato rāmaḥ karmaṇo virarāma ha ||
वैशंपायन म्हणाले—समर्थ प्रभु राम (परशुराम) यांनी एकवीस वेळा पृथ्वी क्षत्रियशून्य केली; आणि नंतर येथे येऊन त्या कर्मातून निवृत्त झाले.
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
Even when one believes oneself justified in punishing wrongdoing, dharma ultimately requires restraint: the verse highlights a turning point where Paraśurāma stops the cycle of retaliatory violence, implying that righteous action has limits and must yield to cessation and moral self-control.
Vaiśampāyana reports that Paraśurāma, famed for repeatedly annihilating the kṣatriyas (counted as twenty-one times), has now come to this place and has ceased from that violent campaign, marking his withdrawal from that particular karma.