Verse 16

¹²And she became the Kausiki, greatly holy, who cleanses the world. It was Renu's daughter Renuka whom Jamadagni married. ¹³By her the Bhargava sage had sons, Vasuman and the rest of them. The youngest born among these was the one widely known as Rama. ¹⁴They say he was a portion of Vasudeva, and the end of the Haihaya line, and that three times seven times over he made this earth a place without kshatriyas. ¹⁵He destroyed the swollen kshatriya class, a burden on the earth and no friend to the brahmins. Wrapped in passion and darkness as it was, he struck it down, though the wrong done had been small. ¹⁶What was that wrong done against the Bhagavan by kshatriyas whose selves were untamed, that the line of the kshatriyas was destroyed for it again and again?