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THE SECOND VAISHNAVITE CONQUEST
THE PARASURAMA MYTH
The Legend of Parasurama
Parasuram was the sixth incarnation of Vishnu. The word Parasu
means 'axe' in Sanskrit and therefore the name Parasuram means
'Ram with Axe'.
The aim of his birth was to deliver the world from the arrogant
oppression of the ruling caste, the Kshatriyas. He killed all the
male Kshatriyas on earth and filled five lakes with their blood.
After destroying the Kshatriya kings, he approached an assembly of
learned men to find a way of penitence for his sins. He was
advised that, to save his soul from damnation, he must hand over
the lands he had conquered to the Brahmins. He did as they advised
and sat in meditation at Gokarnam. There, he was blessed by Varuna
- the God of the Oceans and Bhumidevi - Goddess of Earth.
From Gokarnam he reached Kanyakumari and threw his axe northward
across the ocean. All the region from Kanykumari and Gokarnam
emerged from under the sea. He brought in 64 Brahmin families and
gave this land of Kerala to them.
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Parasurama-legend is found in the Mahabharata; the Puranas;
Kalidasa’s Raghuvamsa (Sanskrit drama canto 4. verse 53); the
Thiruvalangad plates of Rajendra Chola (1012-1044) and the 18th
century Keralolpati history in Malayalam.
Vamana was able to push down Maha
Bali to Patala Loka – the lowest regions of India – to Kerala. The
Christian dominion was thus restricted to the region of the Cheras.
The legend of Parasurama explains
the final Brahmin conquest of Kerala well after the sixth C AD and
speaks of the coming of the Brahmins into Kerala taking over the
country. This process was a contrived series of migration from the
North to the South along the west coast of India.
The Kerala Government Website gives
the following historical note:
“By about the 8th century, a chain
of thirty two Brahmin settlements had come up, which eventually
paved the way for the social, cultural and political separation of
Kerala from the Tamil country, in due course. ….. The revival of
the Chera kingdom was actually a byproduct of the Aryan
Brahmin settlements and assumption of the socio-political
dominance they had established. The Perumal was the Lord of
Mahodayapura and the overlord of Kerala (Keraladhinatha). But his
sovereignty was constrained by the preexisting power of the Brahmin
settlements and the hereditary chieftains.
http://www.kerala.gov.in/history&culture/earlyhistory.htm
Thus the supremacy of Christians
began to vane soon after the sixth century when the Brahmins
immigrated into Kerala and dominated the country. We are not sure of
the social process involved. One of the major reason was the taking
up of arms by the Brahmin youth as mentioned in the historical
records of the Namboodiri Brahmins. Parasurama himself was a
Brahmin who took up the axe – a Brahmin who became a Warrior. It is
this heritage that Parasurama Brahmins brought into Kerala. If
Vamana conquest used subtle deceit, Parasurama conquest used direct
muscle power by secret training of youths into martial arts within
the temple. Particular reference is to be made to the Chatters
which literally means people meant for death - a suicide squad.
The Suicide Squads of Brahmins
“Known variously as the Chatter
or Chattirar, these arms-bearing Brahmanans are seen in records
from different parts of India from the post-Gupta period onwards.
It is from Kerala that we have the clearest information about
them. We hear about the significant institutions called Salais,
which imparted military training to these Brahmanan youth in
different parts of Kerala - some of them had been looked upon by
the neighbouring rulers as a veritable military threat to
them.,…..
In any case, Namboothiris
had become a significant economic, social and political force by
the time the Chera Perumals were ruling over Kerala. This
justifies the statement of a modern historian that the polity
under the Cheras of Mahodayapuram was in reality a Brahmanan
oligarchy and that the Brahmanans constituted the real power
behind the throne.
In fact, the statements in
Keralolpathi as well as other historical sources, that it was the
Brahmanans who put the Chera king on the throne, mean the same
thing. ” Namboothiri Website Trust
Dr. Kesavan
Veluthat
: http://www.namboothiri.com/articles/history.htm
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teacher, as an Islamic revivalist movement following the collapse
of the Ottoman Empire and the subsequent ban of the caliphate
system of government that had united the Muslims for hundreds of
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Thus we can see that there is great
truth in the Parasurama Axe legend. The Brahmins formed a terrorist
training ground within the temples inside Chera empire itself
(similar to the al-Queda, Hamas and Hezbolla of today with suicide
battalions. Techniques has not changed) The Parasu Rama conquest
was a subtle military guerilla conquest of Brahminic Army, where
Parasu Rama raised the Kerala Coast out of “the sea” and handed it
over to the Brahmins.. (Even in modern India this religious based
guerilla trainings are organized by the Siva Sena (Army of Siva) in
Bombay and the Rashtiya SwayamSeva Sangh (RSS) (Political Self
Serving Group) to fight the Christians and the muslims.) By the
eighth century, Brahmins came to control villages centered around a
temple taking over large masses of land. They became Land Lords and
Priests and the local villagers became Adiyars (Serfs).
The present Brahmin families (gotras)
trace their origin only from the sixth century AD the descendants
of the families brought in by Parasurama. Until then Brahmins did
not exist in Kerala. The small faction of Brahmins who were present
at the time when Thomas arrived in the Kerala coast, embraced the
Way and they remain as teachers of the Word even to this day.
The Nairs – the warrior caste - as
a caste, appear on the scene as late as the 12thC AD. They came
from the North is certain. In the later years, Nairs were made the
ruling class in Kerala by the Brahmins. Brahmins then relegated to
the priesthood profession within the temple controlling the vast
landed property. It was from this time onwards that we see the
presence of idols and the temples in Kerala. What is interesting is
that soon after the eclipse of the Kalbhras, the Second Chera Empire
made its appearance in the annals of Kerala history. Mahodyapuram
(modern Kodangallur) was its capital. It was founded by Kulasekhara
Alvar (a.d. 800-820),
one of the 12 Alvars. Alvars were
Tamil saints who composed and sang hymns in praise of
Vishnu. They were exponents of the
Bhakti (devotional) cult in South India. The Alvars gave a great
impetus to the Bhakti cult in South India between the seventh and
the tenth centuries. Thus the Gnostic concept of Vishnu swallowed
Isa. Instead Vishnu incarnates now and then to destroy the
Isanuvadikal (the followers of Isa) | 
