His mother was a pious woman. One day she was taking water in the river, by making pot out of mud. As a gandharva was passing in the clouds. She had a looking for that celestial person. She could not make the mud pot. She returned to the hermit, without water. Realizing what happened; saint became furious with his wife and ordered parasurama to cut off his mother's head. Obeying his father's words parasurama cut off his mother's head.
Later he felt for his mother and with the blessings of his mother, he attached his mother's head again into her body.