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Parasharam

Rama with the axe; Parashurama

Parasharam means “Rama with the axe; Parashurama”.

Origin language
Sanskrit / Kannada
First letter
P
Historical records
3,275

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Parasharam mean?

Parasharam is a Kannada vernacular form of Parashurama, whose name joins parashu, “axe”, to Rama. Epic and Puranic narratives portray him as an axe-bearing warrior sage. He is counted among Vishnu's incarnations.

Meaning themes

Spellings in Indian scripts

Kannada

ಪರಶರಾಮ

Conventional spelling

Devanagari

परशराम

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Parasharam in Indian usage

3,275 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.

By birth decade

Parasharam: records by birth decade1950s: 3151950s1960s: 5491960s1970s: 8591970s1980s: 8911980s1990s: 4511990sOther decades: 210Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1950s315
1960s549
1970s859
1980s891
1990s451
Other decades210

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Karnataka3,275
How to read these numbers

Small counts and a second count where needed are withheld for privacy; an omitted value is not zero. Coverage, dates and suppression.

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Sources

  1. Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001

  2. Monier-Williams, paraśurāma, p. 589,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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