Editing Jamadagni (section)

=== Death ===
Jamadagni was once visited by the [[Haihayas|Haihaya]] king [[Kartavirya Arjuna]] and his retinue (who was said to have thousand arms/hands), to whom he served a feast offered by the divine cow, [[Kamdhenu|Kamadhenu]]. The king sent his minister called Chandragupta, who offered a ten million cows, or even half the kingdom, to purchase this cow of plenty, but Jamadagni refused to part with her. Not willing to concede, Chandragupta and his men seized the cow by force and took her away with them. The helpless rishi, who loved the cow, pursued Chandragupta's party as they traversed the forest, unwilling to allow them to steal her. Infuriated by his defiance, the minister struck down Jamadagni, and took Kamadhenu to the king's capital city of Māhiṣmatī.

After a long wait, Renuka started to search for her husband, finding him almost dead, surrounded by a pool of his own blood. Renuka fainted at the sight, and when she returned to consciousness, started wailing. When Parashurama and his disciple, Akṛtavraṇa, found her, she turned to him, and beat her breast twenty-one times. Parashurama resolved that he would travel the world twenty-one times, and annihilate all the [[Kshatriya]] kings he could find.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Lochtefeld|first=James G.|url=http://archive.org/details/illustratedencyc0000loch|title=The illustrated encyclopedia of Hinduism|date=2002|publisher=New York : Rosen|others=Internet Archive|isbn=978-0-8239-2287-1}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Mani|first=Vettam|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mvXsDwAAQBAJ&q=Jamadagni&pg=PP5|title=Puranic Encyclopedia: A Comprehensive Work with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature|date=2015-01-01|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass|isbn=978-81-208-0597-2|language=en}}</ref> When Jamadagni was to be cremated, the sage Shukra arrived on the scene, and restored the rishi's life with the ''Mṛtasañjīvanī'' mantra.

Parashurama and Akṛtavraṇa travelled to Māhiṣmatī, intending to bring Kamadhenu back home. At the gates of the city, they met [[Kartavirya Arjuna]] and his forces in battle, and slew them. They returned the divine cow to Jamadagni. The rishi instructed his son to perform a penance at Mahendragiri in order to cleanse himself of his sins. While Parashurama had left for this penance, Shurasena, a son of Kartavirya Arjuna, and his men, exacted their vengeance by beheading Jamadagni at his hermitage, and taking his head with them so that he could not be resurrected again. Parashurama and Jamadagni's disciples cremated the rishi, and his wife Renuka performed [[Sati (practice)|sati]]. Thence, Parashurama, inheriting his fallen father's Sharanga, started his twenty-one expeditions to obliterate the kings of the Kshatriya race.<ref name="www.wisdomlib.org"/>