विलप्यैवं पितुर्देहं निधाय भ्रातृषु स्वयम् । प्रगृह्य परशुं राम: क्षत्रान्ताय मनो दधे ॥ १६ ॥
vilapyaivam pitur deham nidhaya bhratrsu svayam pragrhya parasum ramah ksatrantaya mano dadhe
- vilapya
- lamenting
- evam
- like this
- pituh
- of his father
- deham
- the body
- nidhaya
- entrusting
- bhratrsu
- to his brothers
- svayam
- personally
- pragrhya
- taking
- parasum
- the axe
- ramah
- Lord Parasurama
- ksatra-antaya
- to put an end to all the ksatriyas
- manah
- the mind
- dadhe
- fixed.
Thus lamenting, Lord Parasurama entrusted his father’s dead body to his brothers and personally took up his axe, having decided to put an end to all the ksatriyas on the surface of the world.