SB 9.16.16
His Divine Grace
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXT 16
- vilapyaivaṁ pitur dehaṁ
- nidhāya bhrātṛṣu svayam
- pragṛhya paraśuṁ rāmaḥ
- kṣatrāntāya mano dadhe
SYNONYMS
vilapya — lamenting; evam — like this; pituḥ — of his father; deham — the body; nidhāya — entrusting; bhrātṛṣu — to his brothers; svayam — personally; pragṛhya — taking; paraśum — the axe; rāmaḥ — Lord Paraśurāma; kṣatra-antāya — to put an end to all the kṣatriyas; manaḥ — the mind; dadhe — fixed.
TRANSLATION
Thus lamenting, Lord Paraśurāma entrusted his father's dead body to his brothers and personally took up his axe, having decided to put an end to all the kṣatriyas on the surface of the world.