Parashu Rama- Incarnation and Story of King Karthavirya

The kshatriyas were the second of the four classes. It was their job to wear arms and protect the world. And rule. The brahmanas were the first of the four classes. It was their job to pray, study the sacred texts and perform religious rites. But the kshatriyas became very insolent and began to oppress the world and the brahmanas. Vishnu was then born as the son of the sage Jamadagni and his wife Renuka. Since this was the line of the sage Bhrigu, Parashurama was also called Bhargava. Parashurama’s mission was to protect the brahmanas and teach a lesson to the kshatriyas.
There was a king named Kartavirya who had received all sorts of boons from the sage Dattatreya. Thanks to these boons, Kartavirya had a thousand arms and conquered and ruled over the entire world.

One day, Kartavirya went on a hunt to the forest. He was very tired after the hunt and was invited by the sage Jamadagni had a kamadhenu cow. This meant that the cow produced whatever its owner desired. Jamadagni used the kamadhenu to treat Kartavirya and all his soldiers to a sumptuous feast.
Kartavirya was so enamoured of the kamadhenu that he asked the sage to give it to him. But Jamadagni refused. Kartavirya then abducted the cow by force and a war started between Kartavirya and Parashurama. In this war, Parashurama cut off Kartavirya’s head with his axe (parashu) and brought the kamadhenu back to the hermitage.
After some time, Parashurama was away when Kartavirya’s sons arrived at the ashrama and killed Jamadagni. On the death of his father, Parashurama’s anger was aroused. He killed all he kshatriyas in the world twenty-one times. On the plains of Kurukshetra, he built five wells which were filled with the blood of kshatriyas. Eventually, Parashurama handed over the world to Kashyapa and went and lived on Mount Mahendra.

Who was king Kartavirya ? WhyLord Vishnu came as parasu rama to kill him?

Karthavirya was the human form of the Lord Vishnu Sudharshan chakra.
On one fine day when Lord Vishnu killed Demons with his Sudharsha Chakra which was gift of Lord Shiva . Then in Vykuntam Narad maharshi was praising lord Vishnu and during his conversation with sudharshan chakra  - Narad said " this is completely possible because you where in hand of lord Vishnu or else it would be not possible for lord to kill the demon " Then sudharshan chakra Replies to narad " ofcourse its true who can says its not true". Though Lord Vishnu agreed that sudharshan Chakra helped him but tbihere was a bud of pride growing in the mind of Sudharshan . By observing the pride Lord Vishnu cursed him to "take birth as human and live without me to show your pride".

Then Sudharshan chakra realized what mistake he commited and requested for the pardon his mistake . Lord Vishnu Said " it impossible to take my curse back but you would die in my hands as human and will return to vykunt".
Then sudharshan chakra was born as King Kartavirya with paralysed hands .
Kartavirya became a devotee of Sadguru Dattatreya -Incarnation of 3 Lords ,Lord Vishnu , Lord Brahma, Lord Maheshwara .
Kartavirya has lots of boons from Dattatreya made him powerful.

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Story of Bali Chakravarthy- Vamana Avatar

With Andhaka thus taken care of, Prahlada's son Virochana became the king of the demons. He ruled his kingdom well.
There was a sage named Sanatakumara who once went to visit Virochana. Virochana was delighted to see the sage and Sanatakumara instructed Virochana on the true nature of the universe. These teachings so impressed Virochana that he no longer had any desire to be a king. He went off to meditate, after having crowned his son, Bali, as the king of the demons.
Bali was a good and righteous king. He ruled well and observed religious rites faithfully. But he defeated Indra and the other gods and won over heaven from them. Indra and the other gods started to pray to Vishnu for deliverance.
The mother of all the gods was Aditi and she was despondent at seeing her children suffer thus. She too, started to pray to Vishnu. Stirred by these prayers, Vishnu appeared before Aditi.
"What boon do you desire?" he asked.
"Please grant me the boon that you will be born as my son." replied Aditi. "And as my son, you will take care of Bali."
Vishnu granted the boon and was born as Aditi's son. As Aditi's son, Vishnu studied the Vedas under the sage Bharadvaja.
Meanwhile, Bali arranged a yajna and Vishnu came to attend the ceremony in the form of a dwarf (Vamana). (In more usual accounts, such as the Bhagavata Purana, Vishnu was born as a dwarf.)
Bali was not going to refuse anything to anyone on the occasion of the sacrifice. As soon as he saw the dwarf, he worshipped him and said, "I am fortunate that you have come to attend my ceremony. Please tell me what I can do for you."
"Grant me as much of land as can be covered in three of my footsteps," replied the dwarf.
This boon Bali granted. The dwarf immediately assumed a gigantic form. With one footstep, Vishnu covered the entire earth. With a second, he covered the sky. And with the third and final footstep, he covered heaven. The entire universe is inside and egg (anda) and outside the egg there is water. Vishnu's foot cracked the shell of the egg and some of the water that was outside,
poured in. This water began to flow through the sky and became the heavenly Ganga. (The story of the heavenly Ganga (identified as the Milky Way) descending to earth is a separate story. The story of Ganga being born from Vishnu's body is given in the Brahmavaivarta Purana.)
Having traversed all the land that was available, Vishnu resumed his form of a dwarf.
"You have now donated to me all the three worlds," he told Bali. "Where will you stay?"
"I seek refuge with you," was Bali's answer.
Vishnu then instructed Bali to go and live in the underworld. As for heaven, it was restored to Indra.
This is the story of Vishnu's dwarf (Vamana) incarnation.

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