Skanda Purana — Vishnu Khanda, Shloka 132
अग्निहोत्राणि यांत्वग्रे दीप्यमानानि सर्वशः । वाजपेयातिरात्राणि निर्यातु च ममाग्रतः
agnihotrāṇi yāṃtvagre dīpyamānāni sarvaśaḥ | vājapeyātirātrāṇi niryātu ca mamāgrataḥ
મારા આગળ સર્વત્ર પ્રજ્વલિત અગ્નિહોત્ર અગ્નિઓ ચાલે; અને વાજપેય તથા અતિરાત્ર યજ્ઞો પણ મારા અગ્રે પ્રસ્થાન કરે।
Rāma (direct speech within Ayodhyāmāhātmya)
Tirtha: Ayodhyā-kṣetra (yajña-bhūmi ambience)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Pilgrims/hearers of Ayodhyā-māhātmya
Scene: Rāma commands that blazing Agnihotra fires and the grandeur of Vājapeya and Atirātra rites symbolically go before him, turning departure into a moving sacrificial procession.
FAQs
A dhārmic life culminates in honoring sacred fire and Vedic order; rites become a sanctified escort for the righteous.
Ayodhyā, portrayed as a Vedic-sacral landscape where yajñas and sacred fire naturally accompany the avatāra’s acts.
Agnihotra is to proceed foremost, along with major Soma-sacrifices—Vājapeya and Atirātra—forming a ritual procession.