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Thursday, December 18, 2014

fought advancing ocean

Fought the advancing ocean back, thus saving the lands of Konkan and Malabar (Maharashtra - Karnataka - Kerala coastline).
  1. The coastal area of Kerala state along with the Konkan region, i.e., 
  2. coastal Maharashtra and Karnataka, is known as ParshuramKshetra (area).
Three Versions of Story
  1.  He wanted to retire to some new land to do tápasya and so he requested god Varuna to throw up a new piece of land from the sea.
  2.  According to another version, some sages approached him to give them some secluded land. Parasurama then made the request to Varuna for their sake. Varuna gave him a winnow (surpa) and asked him to hurl it into the sea, as he did a large territory of land was at once thrown up by the sea; It was then known by the name "Surparaka", from the word, "Surpa" meaning winnow.
  3.  According to some other accounts Varuna asked Parasurama to hurl his axe into the sea.