Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 64
ततः संप्रस्थितं रामं दृष्ट्वा प्रोवाच लक्ष्मणः । कुरु मे निग्रहं तावद्गच्छ तीर्थं ततः प्रभो
tataḥ saṃprasthitaṃ rāmaṃ dṛṣṭvā provāca lakṣmaṇaḥ | kuru me nigrahaṃ tāvadgaccha tīrthaṃ tataḥ prabho
അപ്പോൾ രാമൻ പുറപ്പെടുന്നതു കണ്ട ലക്ഷ്മണൻ പറഞ്ഞു— “ആദ്യം കുറച്ചുനേരം എന്നെ നിയന്ത്രിക്കൂ; പിന്നെ, പ്രഭോ, ആ തീർത്ഥത്തിലേക്കു പോകൂ.”
Lakṣmaṇa
Tirtha: Unnamed tīrtha (the same Brahmā/Pitāmaha-associated ford)
Type: ghat
Listener: Audience of the Purāṇa (implicit); within story Lakṣmaṇa speaks to Rāma
Scene: Rāma begins to set out; Lakṣmaṇa, moved and earnest, speaks—asking to be restrained/held back for a moment—then urges Rāma to proceed to the tīrtha.
FAQs
Pilgrimage and purification are to be paired with mastery over impulse and disciplined conduct.
The same tīrtha under discussion in this adhyāya; the verse points toward going there for the prescribed act.
Proceeding to the tīrtha for the intended rite (snāna described in surrounding verses).