Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 20
अथापश्यन्महात्मा स सुपुण्यं तद्गयाशिरः । स्नात्वा श्राद्धं च विधिवद्यावच्छ्रद्धासम न्वितः
athāpaśyanmahātmā sa supuṇyaṃ tadgayāśiraḥ | snātvā śrāddhaṃ ca vidhivadyāvacchraddhāsama nvitaḥ
عندئذٍ أبصر ذلك العظيمُ النفس «غاياشيراس» بالغَ البركة. فاغتسل، ثم أقام شعيرةَ الشرادّها على الوجه المأثور، ممتلئًا إيمانًا وخشوعًا.
Narrator (Purāṇic narrator; specific speaker not explicit in this snippet)
Tirtha: Gayāśiras
Type: peak
Scene: A venerable hero-sage figure stands at a sacred headland/raised spot called Gayāśiras; he bathes, then performs śrāddha with offerings—water libations, piṇḍas, kusa grass—surrounded by a sanctified natural setting.
FAQs
Faithful performance of prescribed rites at a sacred place transforms travel into dharma, especially through ancestral offerings.
Gayāśiras is praised as supremely meritorious, associated with bathing and śrāddha for pitṛs.
Snāna (ritual bath) followed by vidhivat śrāddha (properly performed ancestral rite) with śraddhā (faith).