At this juncture mother earth asked sage Kshayapa to help her to get protection from kings. Though most of the Kshatriyaswere killed by Parashurama, a few kshatriya clans remained untouched by the raging sage and there were a few left in theworld. They were living by following professions they were not called upon to pursue. Many of them were goldsmith'sblacksmiths and many other professions. Parashurama had killed their parents and grand parents and lessened the burdenof bad kings on the earth. Mother earth said,"I need righteous kshtatriyas to maintain law and order and I am surethe remaining princes are capable of doing this. Therefore I beg you to make arrangements to hand over the responsibilitiesof ruling over the land to such able kshtraiya princes. Then she named a few able princes and Kashyapa called themand assigned to them various kingdoms and thus paved the way for the rule of law on the earth. Consequently the clanof kshatriyas increased.
Sri Rama , the seventh incarnation of Lord vishnu was born as the son to king Dasharatha of Ayodhya. He was sent tothe forest at the age of forteen in the order to protect the yaga performed by sage Vishvamitra. Vishwamitra becamesupremely happy and at the end of the mission for which they were brought to the forest, they had to be sent backto the capital Ayodhya. But he did not send them back. By then king Janaka of Mithila had sent an invitation toVishvamitra to attend a yagna which was going to perform in his capital city. Fate had intended that a great eventwhich later had to bring about the welfare of the world was to take place at Mithila. That was the marriage of thedaughter of Janaka with Sri Rama, then they had to spend forteen years of their life in the forest, there in theforest, sita was to be kidnapped by Ravana and on account of that the destruction of the wicked Ravana and his demonforce and all these events had to take place in order to bring about the welfare of humanity. As directed by fateRama and Lakshamana followed Vishvamitra to Mithila. Sri Rama broke the divine bow of Shiva which was kept in the courthall for any great warrior to lift and shoot an arrow from it in order to win the hand of Sita. Sita's marriage withRama was celeberated and the happy royal family of ayodhya, left for the capital. On the way Parashurama met Sri Ramaand the story runs like this.
Parashurama came to know that Sri Rama had broken the divine bow of Shiva at the court of king Janaka and marriedSita Devi. The old anger for Kshatriyas got rekindled. Until then he was happy that all wicked Kshatriyas were destroyed and he could sleep peacefully. The news of Sri Rama breaking the divine bow of Shiva, woke him up to thereality. He was very much disturbed and he decided to meet Sri Rama.
Long ago the divine architect Vishwakarma had designed two divine bows which were very big and strong. It was believedthat there were no weapons equal to them in the three worlds. Devas gave one of the two bows to Lord Shiva to killa demon called Tripura and the other was given to Lord Vishnu. In turn Lord Vishnu handed it over to Vimachika,Parashurama's grandfather to keep it safe and workship it. It came down to Jamadagni and he gave it to Parashuramato destroy the wicked. Only Vishnu or someone who was born as part of his power could weild the bow. Parashuramawho was an incarnation of Lord Vishnu wielded it to telling effect. Now Parashurama decided to challenge anotherperson who was also an incarnation of Lord Vishnu with that divine bow.
Dasharatha's entourage was moving from Mithila towards Ayodhya. All of a sudden there was a big storm. Trees and plants were blown off their roots. Birds began to fly screeching. There was thick dust and one could not see what wasahead. It became almost dark as the dust clouds reached the sky and hide the sun. All these were the forewarning signsof something terrible to happen. Dasharatha and his men felt lost when saw the signs of bad omen. They were at a lossto know what was in store for them. They were all shocked beyond words. Just at that moment they saw Parashuramarushing towards them like the Kalapurusha rushing at the world to destroy everything. The very force of rushing at them made most in the royal party fall unconcious on the ground. even sage Vashishta who was accompanying the royalparty was dismayed to watch the marauding Parashurama. All the soldiers were almost binded as a result if the cloud of dust raised by the storm. they were rendered motionless and could do little. In a little while the storm subsidedand the cloude cleared. Parashurama stood before the royal party. Dasharatha could see the sage from close quaters.He stood bolt upright as Mt Kailas. His face shone with extraordinary brilliance which almost made everyone closehis eyes. He had his divine axe hanging from his shoulder and on the other shoulder he had his divine bow shiningbright as lightning. He had a quiver full of sharp and invincible arrows. He appeared Mrithyunjaya who was on thiscampaign against Thripurasura.
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