Parashurama, the sixth incarnation (avataras) of the Lord Vishnu. Parashurama carries an axe to defend Brahmins (the priestly caste) from persecution by warriors. Many severed limbs lie on the ground beneath the mulit-armed demon. After an illustration by Coenraet Decker in Philippus Baldaeus’s Truthful and Exact Description of the Famous East India Coast of Malabar and Coromandel, Amsterdam, 1672. Sixieme Incarnation. Copperplate engraving by David Herrliberguer after an illustration by Bernard Picard from Les Ceremonies Religieuses de Tous les Peuples du Monde, Religious Ceremonies of All th

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