Editing Parashurama (section)

{{Short description|Sixth avatar of Hindu god Vishnu}}
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{{Use Indian English|date=March 2017}}
{{Infobox deity
| type = Hindu
| image = Parashurama with axe.jpg
| member_of = [[Dashavatara]] and [[Chiranjivi]]
| alt = 
| day = [[Thursday]]
| caption = Parashurama by [[Raja Ravi Varma]]
| other_names = {{plainlist|
*Bhargava Rama
*Jamadagnya Rama
*Ramabhadra}}
| Devanagari = परशुराम
| Sanskrit_transliteration = {{IAST|Paraśurāma}}
| father = [[Jamadagni]]
| mother = [[Renuka]]
| affiliation = [[Vaishnavism]]
| abode = [[Mahendra Mountains]]
| weapon = [[Parashu]] (''{{IAST|Parashu}}'')
| spouse = Dharani ([[Lakshmi]])<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x2J2EAAAQBAJ&dq=Dharani+wife+Parashurama&pg=PT433 |title=Vishnu Purana - Bibek Debroy - Google Books |date=2022-06-30 |isbn=9789354926617 |accessdate=2022-09-25|last1=Debroy |first1=Bibek |publisher=Penguin Random House India Private Limited }}</ref>
| siblings = Rumaṇvān, Suhotra, Vasu, and Viśvāvasu<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.wisdomlib.org/hinduism/compilation/puranic-encyclopaedia/d/doc241636.html | title=Story of Jamadagni | date=28 January 2019 }}</ref>
| birth_date = [[Akshaya Tritiya]]
| birth_place = [[Janapav]]
}}
{{Infobox royalty
| name = [[Dashavatara]] Sequence
| predecessor  = [[Vamana]]
| successor    = [[Rama]]
}}
'''Parashurama''' ({{Langx|sa|परशुराम|lit= Rama with an axe|Paraśurāma}})<!--Do not remove, WP:INDICSCRIPT doesn't apply to WikiProject Hinduism-->, also referred to as '''Rama Jamadagnya''', '''Rama Bhargava''' and '''Virarama''',<ref name="Leslie2014p66"/> is the sixth avatar among the [[Dashavatara]] of the preserver god [[Vishnu]] in [[Hinduism]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://epaper.thestatesman.com/m5/3725372/Dainik-Statesman/28TH-JUNE-2023|title=পুরীধাম ও জগন্নাথদেবের ব্রহ্মরূপ বৃত্তান্ত|page=4|language=bn|date=28 June 2023|access-date=28 June 2023|website=dainikstatesmannews.com|publisher=[[Dainik Statesman]] (The Statesman Group)|location=Kolkata|first=Yogabrata|last=Chakraborty|trans-title=Puridham and the tale of lord Jagannath's legendary 'Bramharup'|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230628053933/https://epaper.thestatesman.com/m5/3725372/Dainik-Statesman/28TH-JUNE-2023#page/1/1|archive-date=28 June 2023|url-status=live }}</ref> Hindu tradition holds him to be the destroyer of the evil on Earth. According to legends, [[Shiva]] advised him to go and liberate the Mother Earth from felons, ill-behaved men, extremists, demons and those blind with pride. He is described as one amongst the ''[[Chiranjivi|Chiranjivis]]'' (Immortals), who will appear at the end of the ''[[Kali Yuga]]'' to be the guru of Vishnu's tenth and last incarnation, [[Kalki]]. 

Born to [[Jamadagni]] and [[Renuka]], the [[Brahmin]] Parashurama was foretold to appear at a time when overwhelming evil prevailed on the earth. The [[Kshatriya]] class, with weapons and power, had begun to abuse their power, take what belonged to others by force and tyrannise people. He corrected the cosmic equilibrium by destroying  these Kshatriyas twenty-one times (leaving some lineages). He is married to Dharani, an incarnation of [[Lakshmi]], the wife of Vishnu.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|last1=Coulter|first1=Charles Russell |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=sEIngqiKOugC&q=Dharani&pg=PA285|title=Encyclopedia of Ancient Deities |last2=Turner |first2=Patricia |date=2013-07-04 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-135-96390-3|language=en}}</ref> 

In the epic ''[[Ramayana]]'', he arrives after [[Sita Swayamvara]], upon hearing the loud noise when [[Rama]] uplifts and breaks the divine bow [[Pinaka (Hinduism)|Pinaka]]. He later deduces that [[Rama]] is [[Vishnu]] himself, he himself asked [[Rama]] to destroy the fruits of his austerities. 

In the epic ''[[Mahabharata]]'' he was the guru of [[Bhisma]], [[Drona]], [[Rukmi]] and [[Karna]].<ref name="JonesRyan2006p324">{{cite book |author1= Constance Jones |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=OgMmceadQ3gC|title=Encyclopedia of Hinduism|author2=James D. Ryan |publisher= Infobase Publishing |year=2006 |isbn=978-0-8160-7564-5|page=324}}</ref><ref name="Lochtefeld2002p500">{{cite book|author=James G. Lochtefeld |url= https://archive.org/details/illustratedencyc0000loch|title=The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Hinduism: N–Z|publisher=The Rosen Publishing Group |year=2002 |isbn=978-0-8239-3180-4|pages=[https://archive.org/details/illustratedencyc0000loch/page/500 500]–501 |url-access=registration}}</ref> 

Parashurama is said to carry various traits including courage, aggression, and warfare along with serenity, patience and prudence. He was known to show his benevolence to Brahmins, children, women, old men and other weaker sections of the society.