Skanda Purana — Vishnu Khanda, Shloka 185
कार्तिके प्राप्य तद्यन्ति तीर्थानि सकलान्यपि । गोप्रतारं गमिष्यामः पापं त्यक्तुमितीच्छया
kārtike prāpya tadyanti tīrthāni sakalānyapi | gopratāraṃ gamiṣyāmaḥ pāpaṃ tyaktumitīcchayā
कार्तिक येताच सर्व तीर्थेही तिकडे निघतात—‘पाप त्यागण्याच्या इच्छेने आपण गोप्रतारास जाऊ’—असा संकल्प करून।
Brahmā (deduced; includes quoted resolve of tīrthas/pilgrims)
Tirtha: Gopratāra
Type: ghat
Scene: A symbolic procession: personified tīrthas—river goddesses and sacred-place deities—travel like pilgrims toward Ayodhyā, all declaring, ‘We shall go to Gopratāra to abandon sin.’
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A sincere intention to renounce sin, aligned with sacred timing (Kārtika), makes pilgrimage a deliberate act of moral and spiritual reform.
Gopratāra Tīrtha in Ayodhyā.
A Kārtika-time pilgrimage/visit to Gopratāra with the resolve to give up pāpa (sin).