तद्रक्तेन नदीं घोरामब्रह्मण्यभयावहाम् । हेतुं कृत्वा पितृवधं क्षत्रेऽमङ्गलकारिणि ॥ १८ ॥ त्रि:सप्तकृत्व: पृथिवीं कृत्वा नि:क्षत्रियां प्रभु: । समन्तपञ्चके चक्रे शोणितोदान् ह्रदान् नव ॥ १९ ॥
tad-raktena nadim ghoram abrahmanya-bhayavaham hetum krtva pitr-vadham ksatre ’mangala-karini trih-sapta-krtvah prthivim krtva nihksatriyam prabhuh samanta-pancake cakre sonitodan hradan nava
- tat-raktena
- by the blood of the sons of Kartaviryarjuna
- nadim
- a river
- ghoram
- fierce
- abrahmanya-bhaya-avaham
- causing fear to the kings who had no respect for brahminical culture
- hetum
- cause
- krtva
- accepting
- pitr-vadham
- the killing of his father
- ksatre
- when the whole royal class
- amangala-karini
- was acting very inauspiciously
- trih-sapta-krtvah
- twenty-one times
- prthivim
- the entire world
- krtva
- making
- nihksatriyam
- without a ksatriya dynasty
- prabhuh
- the Supreme Lord, Parasurama
- samanta-pancake
- at the place known as Samanta-pancaka
- cakre
- he made
- sonita-udan
- filled with blood instead of water
- hradan
- lakes
- nava
- nine
With the blood of the bodies of these sons, Lord Parasurama created a ghastly river, which brought great fear to the kings who had no respect for brahminical culture. Because the ksatriyas, the men of power in government, were performing sinful activities, Lord Parasurama, on the plea of retaliating for the murder of his father, rid all the ksatriyas from the face of the earth twenty-one times. Indeed, in the place known as Samanta-pancaka he created nine lakes filled with their blood.