Text 19] Lord Paraśurāma Destroys the Ruling Class
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TEXT 17
गत्वा माहिष्मतीं रामो ब्रह्मघ्नविहतश्रियम् । तेषां स शीर्षभी राजन् मध्ये चक्रे महागिरिम् ॥१७॥
gatvā māhiṣmatīm rāmo brahma-ghna-vihata-śriyam teṣām sa śīrṣabhī rājan madhye cakre mahā-girim
gatvā—going; māhiṣmatīm—to the place known as Māhiṣmatī; rāmaḥ—Lord Paraśurāma; brahma-ghna—because of the killing of a brāhmaṇa; vihata-śriyam—doomed, bereft of all opulences; teṣām—of all of them (the sons of Kārtavīryārjuna and the other kṣatriya inhabitants); saḥ—he, Lord Paraśurāma; śīrṣabhiḥ—by the heads cut off from their bodies; rājan—O Mahārāja Parīkṣit; madhye—within the jurisdiction of Māhiṣmatī; cakre—made; mahā-girim—a great mountain.
TRANSLATION
O King, Lord Paraśurāma then went to Māhiṣmatī, which was already doomed by the sinful killing of a brāhmaṇa. In the midst of that city he made a mountain of heads, severed from the bodies of the sons of Kārtavīryārjuna.
TEXTS 18-19
तद्रक्तेन नदीं घोरामब्रह्मण्यभयावहाम् । हेतुं कृत्वा पितृवधं क्षत्रेऽमङ्गत्तकारिणि ॥१८॥ त्रिःसप्तकृत्वः पृथिवीं कृत्वा निःक्षत्रियां प्रभुः । समन्तपञ्चके चक्रे शोणितोदान् हृदान् नव ॥१९॥
tad-raktena nadīm ghorām abrahmaṇya-bhayāvahām hetuṁ kṛtvā pitṛ-vadhaṁ kṣatre 'maṅgala-kāriṇi