Skanda Purana — Vishnu Khanda, Shloka 158
शरयूसलिलं रामः पद्भ्यां स समुपास्पृशत् । ततो ब्रह्मा सुरैर्युक्तः स्तोतुं समुपचक्रमे
śarayūsalilaṃ rāmaḥ padbhyāṃ sa samupāspṛśat | tato brahmā surairyuktaḥ stotuṃ samupacakrame
પછી રામે પોતાના ચરણોથી સરયૂના જળને સ્પર્શ કર્યો; ત્યારબાદ દેવતાઓসহ બ્રહ્માએ તેમનું સ્તવન શરૂ કર્યું।
Deductive: Brahmā to Nārada (Vaiṣṇava Khaṇḍa framing); narrative leading into Brahmā’s stuti
Tirtha: Sarayū (Ayodhyā)
Type: ghat
Listener: Pilgrimage audience (not explicit)
Scene: Rāma stands at the Sarayū’s edge, gently touching the water with his feet; ripples glow. Above and around, Brahmā with four faces and the assembled devas raise hands in praise, forming a semicircle of light.
FAQs
Contact with a tirtha sanctifies transitions, and divine praise (stuti) is the natural response to the Lord’s sacred act.
The Sarayū river at Ayodhyā, explicitly highlighted through Rāma’s contact with its holy waters.
A tirtha-contact act is implied (upasparśa/snana-related reverence), followed by stuti (hymnic praise) as devotional worship.
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