Sahasrabahu
Sahasrabahu is a legendary warrior in Indian history. According to legend, he was a contemporary of Ravana. He fought many fights and won all of them except one with Parashuram who killed all the Kshatriya Kings to take revenge of his parents' death to save the Brahmin society from exploitation of Kshatriyas.
Sahasrabahu is also known as Kartavirya Arjuna. He got a boon from Lord Dattatreya to be empowered with the power of 1000 arms. In his initial life he did work for development of society but later on he became arrogant and started misusing his power. He destroyed ashrams and exploited Brahmins. He also killed Rishi Jamadagni who was the father of Parashuram. To avenge his father's death, Parashuram killed Sahasrabahu.
Spelling confusion[]
Sahasra[1]is the correct prefix that means "a thousand", not SahasTra. However, it is invariably misspelled as the latter. Notice how the same prefix is spelled when referring to the crown chakra: "Sahasrara Chakra" or when it occurs in family names (example: Sahasrabuddhe[2]) without a T. Also see Sahasralinga. The confusion arises because the Devanagari letter "sa" (स) merges with "ra" (र) to make "sra" (स्र), which looks like "stra" (स्त्र).
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