क्षत्रं क्षयाय विधिनोपभृतं महात्मा ब्रह्मध्रुगुज्झितपथं नरकार्तिलिप्सु । उद्धन्त्यसाववनिकण्टकमुग्रवीर्य- स्त्रि:सप्तकृत्व उरुधारपरश्वधेन ॥ २२ ॥
ksatram ksayaya vidhinopabhrtam mahatma brahma-dhrug ujjhita-patham narakarti-lipsu uddhanty asav avanikantakam ugra-viryas trih-sapta-krtva urudhara-parasvadhena
- ksatram
- the royal order
- ksayaya
- for the sake of diminishing
- vidhina
- by destination
- upabhrtam
- increased in proportion
- mahatma
- the Lord in the form of the great sage Parasurama
- brahma-dhruk
- the ultimate truth in Brahman
- ujjhita-patham
- those who have given up the path of the Absolute Truth
- naraka-arti-lipsu
- desirous to suffer pain in hell
- uddhanti
- exacts
- asau
- all those
- avanikantakam
- thorns of the world
- ugra-viryah
- awfully powerful
- trih-sapta
- thrice seven times
- krtvah
- performed
- urudhara
- very sharp
- parasvadhena
- by the great chopper
When the ruling administrators, who are known as the ksatriyas, turned astray from the path of the Absolute Truth, being desirous to suffer in hell, the Lord, in His incarnation as the sage Parasurama, uprooted those unwanted kings, who appeared as the thorns of the earth. Thus He thrice seven times uprooted the ksatriyas with His keenly sharpened chopper.