Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 25
तस्मिन्नपि महारण्ये गच्छमानः पुरादहम् । । अपि संधार्यमाणेन अनुयातस्त्वया तदा
tasminnapi mahāraṇye gacchamānaḥ purādaham | | api saṃdhāryamāṇena anuyātastvayā tadā
“اسی عظیم جنگل میں بھی، جب میں شہر سے روانہ ہوا تھا، تب تم نے مشقتیں سہہ کر مجھے سنبھالتے ہوئے میرا ساتھ دیا اور میرے پیچھے چلے آئے تھے۔”
Rāghava (Rāma) (continued lament)
Tirtha: Sarayū-taṭa (present); Araṇya-smṛti (recalled dharma-path)
Type: kshetra
Scene: Rāma, still by the Sarayū, recalls the great forest: a faint ‘memory-vision’ of the exile path—trees, hermitages, and Lakṣmaṇa walking behind him—overlays the present mourning scene.
FAQs
Selfless service and unwavering companionship in dharma are celebrated as virtues that outlast even death, worthy of sacred remembrance.
The broader passage glorifies the Sarayū tīrtha; this verse recalls earlier vanavāsa as part of the moral framing.
None; it is commemorative speech recalling acts of endurance and support.