गोप्रतारसमं तीर्थं न भूतं न भविष्यति । यत्र प्रयागराजोऽपि स्नातुमायाति कार्तिके
gopratārasamaṃ tīrthaṃ na bhūtaṃ na bhaviṣyati | yatra prayāgarājo'pi snātumāyāti kārtike
ગોપ્રતારા સમાન કોઈ તીર્થ ન ભૂતકાળમાં થયું, ન ભવિષ્યમાં થશે; જ્યાં કાર્તિક માસે તીર્થરાજ પ્રયાગ પણ સ્નાન કરવા આવે છે.
Brahmā (deduced)
Tirtha: Gopratāra
Type: ghat
Scene: Personified Prayāga, crowned as ‘tīrtharāja’, approaches Ayodhyā’s Gopratāra-ghāṭ in Kārtika; the Sarayū glitters, pilgrims line the steps with lamps and waterpots.
The Purāṇas rank certain sites as uniquely supreme; reverence and pilgrimage to such tīrthas is presented as spiritually transformative.
Gopratāra Tīrtha in Ayodhyā, declared unequalled.
Bathing (snāna) in Kārtika—so powerful that even Prayāga is poetically said to come there to bathe.
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