yam - whom (Paraśurāma); āhuḥ - all the learned scholars say; vāsudeva-amśam - an incarnation of Vāsudeva, the Supreme Personality of Godhead; haihayānām - of the Haihayas; kula-antakam - the annihilator of the dynasty; triḥ-sapta-kṛtvaḥ - twenty-one times; yaḥ - who (Paraśurāma); imām - this; cakre - made; niḥkṣatriyām - devoid of kṣatriyas; mahīm - the earth.

Learned scholars accept this Paraśurāma as the celebrated incarnation of Vāsudeva who annihilated the dynasty of Kārtavīrya. Paraśurāma killed all the kṣatriyas on earth twenty-one times.