Parashurama worshipping Lord Shiva and getting missiles

Himavan: Parashurama worshipping Lord Shiva and getting missiles:

(Brahmanda Purana - 24 to 25)

Lord Parashurama

• Meditation: I meditate on the Parashurama Avatara of Lord Vishnu.

• Parashurama worshipping Lord Shiva in his hermitage in Himavan: Parashurama then returned to his hermitage and continued his penance. He created an Image of Lord Shiva in the form of a hunter and worshipped it. He propitiated it with incense, flowers, food and eulogies.
(Brahmanda Purana - 24)

• Lord Shiva granting missiles to Parashurama: Lord Shiva became pleased and appeared before Parashurama along with a group of Devas. Parashurama eulogized the Lord. Lord Shiva told him to ask for a boon. Parashurama asked for all the missiles and the boon that no one would be able to defeat him in the battle. Lord Shiva granted him the missiles along with the method of the discharging and withdrawing them. Lord Shiva also granted him a chariot with white horses of unobstructed speed. He also gave him a divine bow called Vijaya and two quivers of inexhaustible arrows, and a kavacha to withstand all types of weapons. Thereafter. Lord Shiva vanished. Parashurama kept the weapons in the custody of Mahodara (Indra).
(Brahmanda Purana - 25)

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