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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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