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IT WES A BIRTH UNDER STRANGE CIRCUMSTANCES.
HIS. GREAT- GRANDFATHER, GADHI HAD ADAUGHTER CALLED
GADHI, WAS A GOOD KING . SATAWATI, BUT NO SON.

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AS LONG AS
HE RULES,
WE NEED
\ FEAR NONE.
HE WENT TO HER FATHER.
 SO RICHIKA GAVE GADHI THE THOUSAND BROWN HORSES...

ONE DAY BHRIGU CAME TO VISIT HIS SON AND DAUGHTER-IN-LAW.

THEY LOOKED AFTER HIS NEEDS
WITH TON.

GIVE ME A SON )
AND A BROTHER .
 HEED MY
INSTRUCTIONS
CAREFULLY
 MOST OF THE KSHATRIGAS

MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN TREMBLED WITH FEARRIG EREES

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IN THE MEANWHILE, THE SAINTS AND SAGES

THE COULD NO LONGER BEAR THE
VIOLATIONS OF THEIR PENANCES AND
SACRIFICES BY KARTAVIRYA ARJUNA.
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THE FIETH AND YOUNGEST WAS RAMA WHO WAS REALLY VISHNU REBORN
TO FULFIL HIS PROMISE TO INDRA AND THE SAGES.
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THAT NIGHT THE SONS OF ARJUNA STOLE THE CALF AND MADE OFF WITH IT.

CALF? WHY ARE THEY

SEPARATED 2
THEN PARASHURAMA TOOK HISAXE
AND RUSHED TO THE PALACE OF
KARTAVIRYVA ARJUNA.
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BURDENS, RETIRED TO THE CRESTS IN THE MAHENDRA MOUNTAINS TO SPEND
THE REST OF HIS DAVE, ENGAGED IN PRACTISING THE SEVEREST OF
PENANCES.
 EPICS &
MYTHOLOGY
PARASHURAMA
It was @ time when the earth was ravaged with violence ond
bloodshed. The Kshatriya kings had forgotten their duty to rule with
compassion. Instead, they subdued the people by unleashing a reign
of brutal terror. At such a time the sixth incarnation of Vishnu was
born, Parashurama, axe-wielding warrior-saint, strode across the
age to destroy evil and liberate good.

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