Storia do Mogor 247.8

247.8

The sixth, the seventh, and the eighth incarnations took place in a man called Rame- (Rama). The reason on the first occasion was as follows : A class of men called Rajputs became so haughty that they allowed no one to live in peace on the earth, nor would they permit a king of penitent monks, called Mongis (Muni), to perform his penances. In brief, they inflicted pain on everybody in general. Noticing this, Vishnu incarnated himself as Rama, and for a space of twenty-one generations he was busy in slaying all the Rajputs, and bathed himself in their blood. Thus by this means the barbarous tribe of Rajputs came to an end. The second time of his incarnation as Rama was to kill a giant called Catavari Argune (Kartavirya Arjuna), who had not less than a thousand arms. He was destroying the world, and no one able to resist him. On perceiving this, Vishnu incarnated himself a second time as Rama, and taking as weapon a plough-share, he broke with it all the giant's bones and cut off his arms, though not without a great deal of labour, and slaying him, made his bones into a mountain.