It has been an overwhelming fact that the aura of the sixth avatar of Lord Vishnu has not been constricted to one single place but in fact, spreads widely over the whole of the Indian subcontinent.
Ranging from Karnataka in South to the splendid and serene hills of Arunachal Pradesh in North-East, indubitably Lord Parshuram still holds his own substance and vitality. At first it may appear incredible to believe that these far distant places have been interwined in the thread of the legends of Lord Parshuram, but after requisite scrutiny and collation of the various descriptions of Lord Parashuram in Mahabharata and Ramayana, one can easily infer that the world as a whole was a mere patch of land for the almighty. In his previous incarnation as Lord Vamana, he had grown big enough to make the whole universe drown under his feet and hence the manifest power of the supreme lord can never be deemed with a skeptical mind.
Let us dig further down to see a few legends regarding Lord Parshuram’s visit in Karnataka and the mountains of Arunachal Pradesh.
According to the first book of Mahabharata, Lord Parshuram traveled the whole of earth and decimated the Kshatriya clan. After fulfilling his oath of carrying out the gory extirpation of the scoundrels, he had indeed created five rivers of blood. As per a related legend, while returning from a battle Lord Parashuram rested at the bank of a river situated in what is now known as Badami Taluka of Bagalkot district of Karnataka. While he was about to go ahead, he started washing his blood-stained axe with the river water. As the blood started diffusing down in the river, anon the whole river turned red and unaware of the presence of Lord Parshuram, women washing their clothes downstream were left awe-struck and shrieked “Aihole” meaning “Oh! What a river”. Thus even today the whole village is known as “Aihole”.
Moving on to the far reaching mountains of Arunachal Pradesh, down the Brahmaputra plateau, in the lower reaches of Lohit River, there lays the special Parashuram Kund. 21 km north of Tezu in Lohit district of Arunachal Pradesh lays this enigmatic place. Though the river here flows in fast skirring streamlines, but in a mysterious manner, the boulders have so arranged themselves that now a whole “Kund” has been established there by the artistry of nature itself. According to Kalika Purana, Lord Parshuram washed his sin of killing Kshatriyas at this place. Although he had wielded the weapon in order to sabotage the tyrants and immoral people, but still since he was a Brahmin, warfare was not supposed to be his work and hence Lord Parshuram came here to atone for his actions. Every year more than 70,000 pilgrims from around the nation as well as from neighboring countries like Nepal throng the place and on the day of Makarsakranti, the vitality of this place beggars description.
Words are left inadequate in describing the supreme Lord Parshuram, the one who is omnipotent and omnipresent, the one whose significance even outreaches the boundaries of time and the one whose strength is purely unfathomable.
Though I have mentioned only two legends, but in actuality, the whole nation abounds with so many other legends about the great lord which we will uncover in the coming posts.
JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT
JAI MA BHARTI
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