Meeting of Parashurama and Sri Rama in the Ramayana is awe
inspiring - two avatars of Vishnu meeting on earth. One was calm and serene
another angry like the thunder. The meeting happens when Sri Ram was returning
to Ayodhya with Mata Sita after their marriage in Mithila. They meet in the
middle of a forest.
Sage Vasishta offers Arghya to Parashuram. Dasharatha pleads
him to spare them.
Parashuram goes straight to Sri Ram and says that he has
been hearing lot of the prowess of him. You broke the bow of Mahadeva at
Mithila. I want to see your prowess.
He offers his bow and asks to life it, string it and shoot
an arrow with it. This bow like the bow of Mahadeva was built by Vishwakarma
and was used by Vishnu.
Parashuram also states that if he cannot lift the bow then
he should either fight him or accept defeat.
Rama was standing silent during the entire episode.
Sri Rama then took the bow and arrow from Parashurama with
ease. He strung the bow and fixed an arrow to it.
All of it seemed to child’s play to Sri Ram
Parashuram felt his strength ebbing away. He
accepted he was vanquished. He then gave all this Tapas and strength to Rama and
went away to the Mahendra
Mountain