Skanda Purana — Vishnu Khanda, Shloka 29
इति विविधविधानैस्तीर्थयात्रांक्रमेण प्रथितगुणविकासः प्राप्तपुण्योविधाय । हरिमुपहृतभावः पूजयन्सर्वतीर्थं व्रजति परमधाम न्यस्तपापः कथञ्चित्
iti vividhavidhānaistīrthayātrāṃkrameṇa prathitaguṇavikāsaḥ prāptapuṇyovidhāya | harimupahṛtabhāvaḥ pūjayansarvatīrthaṃ vrajati paramadhāma nyastapāpaḥ kathañcit
Así, al emprender la peregrinación a los tīrtha en el debido orden y mediante muchas observancias prescritas, las virtudes se despliegan y se obtiene mérito. Con el corazón ofrecido a Hari, adorando en cada vado sagrado, uno—dejando atrás el pecado—llega, de algún modo, a la morada suprema.
Unspecified (concluding statement of the Ayodhyāmāhātmya passage)
Tirtha: Ayodhyā tīrtha-krama (collective)
Type: kshetra
Listener: a brāhmaṇa interlocutor (vipra)
Scene: A pilgrim procession moving from one Ayodhyā tīrtha to another in orderly sequence, offering flowers and lamps to Hari at each ford; the final panel shows the pilgrim’s sins falling away as a radiant path opens toward Paramadhāma.
FAQs
Pilgrimage is framed as a structured dharmic path: observance + devotion to Hari + worship at tīrthas culminates in liberation-oriented attainment.
The collective tīrthas of Ayodhyā, approached in an ordered pilgrimage circuit (krameṇa).
Perform tīrtha-yātrā in sequence with prescribed observances and worship Hari at each tīrtha.