Skanda Purana — Vishnu Khanda, Shloka 61
सर्वोपपातकैर्युक्तैर्ब्रह्महत्यादिपातकैः । नायोध्या शक्यते यस्मात्तामयोध्यां ततो विदुः
sarvopapātakairyuktairbrahmahatyādipātakaiḥ | nāyodhyā śakyate yasmāttāmayodhyāṃ tato viduḥ
സകല ഉപപാതകങ്ങളാലും ബ്രഹ്മഹത്യാദി മഹാപാതകങ്ങളാലും ഭാരിതരായവർക്കും അയോധ്യയെ ജയിക്കുകയോ കീഴടക്കുകയോ സാധ്യമല്ല; അതുകൊണ്ടുതന്നെ അവൾ ‘അയോധ്യാ’—അജേയ—എന്നു പ്രസിദ്ധമാണ്।
Agastya
Tirtha: Ayodhyā-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Listener: Dvija / Brāhmaṇa (addressed audience)
Scene: A pilgrim weighed down by symbolic chains of sins approaches Ayodhyā’s luminous boundary; the city stands radiant and unassailable, with Viṣṇu’s protective aura repelling darkness.
FAQs
A supremely sacred kṣetra stands inviolable; its holiness is not diminished even when approached by those stained with grave wrongdoing.
Ayodhyā, praised as ‘Ayodhyā’—the place that cannot be overcome or assailed.
No explicit ritual is stated; the verse asserts the kṣetra’s inviolable sanctity in relation to sin.