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Parashu

Objects · Myth & story · Traditions

A named battle-axe of Indian story, especially of Parashurama. Not a labrys, and not every woodcutter’s axe under a Sanskrit name.

Vedic tradition

sources

  • The Rigveda · Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton (translation)

    Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton, The Rigveda: The Earliest Religious Poetry of India.