BHAGAWAN PARASURAM OF PHEDE

HIS WORK IN KERALA

Though resumed his ascetic life again, he was ministering to the needs of people in several ways. Even the incarnated too received his aid and held him in high esteem. In the Tretayuga, he gave away his astras to Sri Rama for use against Dasakantha, and in the Dwaparayuga he met Balarama and Srikrishna during their skirmishes against Jarasanda and helped them to defeat their powerful enemy through giriyuddha. After the Kurukshetra war, he settled down on the Sahyagiri permanently. In the Kaliyuga his presence and intervention were sought by the ascetics living in the down south to the western part. The sea- king started inundating part by part of the west coast, causing unendurable anguish to the munikula to leading their quite life there. Listening to their tearful tales, he took up his astra and entered the land. The sea king finding his adversary in his most fiercist form accepted to withdraw as far as his arrow went. He released potent arrow, the result was the emergence of the present Kerala State. Reclamation started and ascetics returned, but that region was scarcely populated and was without temples and cultural institutions. He set out then moving across the land and built many temples and brought Veda pandits from the Aryavratha to conducting both regular prayer services and periodical worship. 

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