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69) Kshatriyaantaka Ramaya SrI VenkatEsaaya nama:
 
Salutations to VenkatEsaa , who was verily the avenging angel of Death to the ruling class
 
This nama recounts Srinivasa's exploits, as the angry young Rishi Parasurama, in destroying Kings for 21 generations and performing pitru tarpanam in their blood.
 
A question may arise in BhakthAs' minds--if the Lord is indeed merciful and compassionate, how can He ever even contemplate the killing of even a single person, king or otherwise, leave alone 21 generations of hthem?
 
Swami Desikan furnishes the answer to this puzzle in Daya Satakam. The Kings who inhabited the world during Sri Parasurama's times were worse than asuras, having slipped from their divine duties of protecting their subjects and of leading a life founded on adharma . Knowing fully well that they could not be brought back to the path of righteousness through advice or persuasion ,
the Lord decided to destroy them, lest they fall further in the pursuit of their unholy objectives. Hence it was essentially to prevent these misguided Kshatriyas from continuing a life of sin and misdeed, that the Lord cut their lives short, affording them an opportunity in a different birth, to redeem themselves. Thus it is definitely an act of mercy on the Lord's part, to have destroyed them, says Swami Desikan.
 
Sri Parasurama's exploits are described in detail in the Vamana Purana, in the form of a stotram by Vayu Bhagavan.



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