Vasiṣṭha said:: Rāma (i.e. Paraśurāma) also, the most excellent one among those who uphold dharma, who mastered the essential principles of the Vedas and the auxiliary treatises concerning the Vedas and who was an expert in all scriptures, who was polite and of a well-disciplined nature and who was highly intelligent, served his parents, O leading king. By his activities, he heightened the pleasure of others.