Skanda Purana — Vishnu Khanda, Shloka 48
आगत्य तु इतः सोऽपि कृऽत्वा यात्रां क्रमेण च । यथोक्तेन विधानेन स्नात्वा संतर्प्य तान्पितॄन्
āgatya tu itaḥ so'pi kṛ'tvā yātrāṃ krameṇa ca | yathoktena vidhānena snātvā saṃtarpya tānpitṝn
সেখানে এসে তিনিও ক্রমে ক্রমে তীর্থযাত্রা সম্পন্ন করলেন; এবং শাস্ত্রোক্ত বিধি অনুযায়ী স্নান করে পিতৃগণকে তर्पণ দিয়ে তৃপ্ত করলেন।
Narrator (contextual, Vaiṣṇavakhaṇḍa—Ayodhyāmāhātmya; speaker not explicit in the snippet)
Tirtha: Ayodhyā tīrtha-krama (sequence of tīrthas)
Type: ghat
Scene: Agastya performs dawn snāna, then sits facing the river, offering tarpaṇa with cupped hands; subtle ancestral forms receive the offerings, appearing as gentle silhouettes or rays of light rising from the water.
FAQs
A true tīrtha-yātrā integrates personal purification (snāna) with gratitude to lineage through pitṛ-tarpaṇa.
Ayodhyā’s pilgrimage-circuit of tīrthas (implied), undertaken in ordered stages.
Snāna according to rule and tarpaṇa (satisfying) the Pitṛs—standard pilgrimage observances.