Verse 16

¹⁶Having wept so, Rama himself laid his father's body in his brothers' keeping, took up the axe, and set his mind on the ending of the kshatriyas. ¹⁷Rama went to Mahismati, whose splendour had been struck away by the killing of a brahmin, and there, king, out of their heads he raised a great hill in the middle of the city. ¹⁸With their blood he made a terrible river, one that brings fear to those who are no friend to the brahmins; and the killing of his father was his ground against a kshatriya class that worked what is not auspicious. ¹⁹Three times seven times over the mighty one made the earth a place without kshatriyas, and at Samantapancaka he made nine lakes whose water was blood.