अगस्त्य उवाच । अन्यच्छृणु महाभाग तीर्थं दुष्कृतिदुर्ल्लभम् । ऋणमोचनसंज्ञं तु सरयूतीरसंगतम्
agastya uvāca | anyacchṛṇu mahābhāga tīrthaṃ duṣkṛtidurllabham | ṛṇamocanasaṃjñaṃ tu sarayūtīrasaṃgatam
అగస్త్యుడు పలికెను—హే మహాభాగ! మరింత వినుము; సరయూ తీరసంగతమైన ‘ఋణమోచన’ నామ తీర్థము దుష్కర్ములకు దుర్లభము.
Agastya
Tirtha: Ṛṇamocana-tīrtha
Type: ghat
Listener: Unnamed interlocutor addressed as ‘mahābhāga’ (likely a sage/disciple in the frame narrative)
Scene: Agastya, seated as a venerable teacher, points toward the Sarayū’s luminous bank while describing the hidden/difficult-to-attain Ṛṇamocana-tīrtha; the river glows as a sanctifying boundary.
A tīrtha is not merely a location but a moral invitation—access is framed as difficult for persistent wrongdoers and fruitful for sincere seekers.
Ṛṇamocana-tīrtha on the Sarayū riverbank in Ayodhyā.
No explicit ritual yet; it introduces the tīrtha and its sanctifying character (details follow).