| Temples & Legends Of Maharashtra |
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| Temples & Legends Of India |
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young prince was equal to the occasion; he took the bow and the arrows from the ancient
warrior, put on the string and placed the arrow in position. Now he was speaking from a
position of strength and told Parashurama that the Vaishnava arrow would not be wasted and
would destroy either his 'gati’—power of moving wherever he wanted, or the Lokas
he had achieved through his great tapa. Parashurama expressed great satisfaction at this
assertion of his strength by the young Raghava and offered to loose the Lokas. The arrow
accordingly destroyed. Parashurama was then worshipped and honoured by Rama and the former
took his leave. The object of his visit to Ramachandra was to give him the great bow. And
although he knew that Rama was indeed an incarnation of Vishnu, he bad to make sure that
it went to the proper hands. Having made his contribution to the ultimate victory of the
divine cause, Parashurama returned to his abode on the Mahendra mountains.
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