Jamadagni's son

After destroying the kshatriyas and filling five lakes with their blood, Rama Jamadagnya worships his ancestors. Pleased with his devotion, they appear and offer him a boon — and Rama asks for something unexpected.

Rama, the destroyer of enemy warriors, enters the hermitage last. The great ascetic Jamadagni tells him in great anger: kill your evil mother, without any compassion. Rama grasps his axe and slices off his mother's head. Then Jamadagni's anger is suddenly appeased, and he offers Rama any wishes — which Rama uses to undo everything that was done.

King Kartavirya, drunk on battle, arrives at the hermitage when the sons are away. He rejects the rishi's wife's homage, destroys the hermitage, and steals the sacrificial cow's calf. When Rama returns and learns what happened, he rushes at Kartavirya in fury and slices off his one thousand arms with sharp arrows. But Kartavirya's sons, seeking revenge, attack the hermitage when Rama is absent — and kill the defenseless Jamadagni.

On the fourteenth lunar day, at the appointed time, the great-souled Rama Jamadagnya appears before the brahmanas and King Yudhishthira with his brothers. Yudhishthira worships him with full honours, and Rama honours him in return — before departing for the south after a single night on Mahendra mountain.

Rama Jamadagnya, after performing his father's funereal rites, swears to destroy every kshatriya on earth. Alone, like the god of death, he kills Kartavirya's sons and all their followers — then purges the earth of kshatriyas twenty-one times, building five lakes of blood at Samantapanchaka before Richika himself appears to restrain him.