01The axe that would not fall
At the command of his father Jamadagni, Parashurama struck down his mother Renuka, and then, granted a boon, asked that she be restored to life. Yet the sin of the deed clung to him, and the axe would not leave his hand. Rishis told him to bathe in the Brahmakund in the far east of Bharat. When he dipped his hands in the Lohit here, the axe fell, and he cut a way through the hills with it so that the river could flow out to the plains. The Kalika Purana names the Brahmakund among the tirthas of the east.
02After the earthquake
The great Assam earthquake of 15 August 1950 shifted the riverbed and buried the old kund; pilgrims now bathe at a pool the Lohit formed after it. The Makar Sankranti mela in January draws sadhus from Nepal and across India, and there is a temple of Parashurama and a shrine of Renuka on the bank.
The life of this place
- 15 August 1950The Assam earthquake buries the old kund; a new pool forms.
About 48 km from Tezu; the mela is at Makar Sankranti in mid-January. An Inner Line Permit is needed.
