Skanda Purana — Vishnu Khanda, Shloka 47
तामयोध्यामथ प्राप्तोऽगस्त्यः कुम्भोद्भवो मुनिः । यात्रार्थं तीर्थमाहात्म्यं ज्ञात्वा स्कन्दप्रसादतः
tāmayodhyāmatha prāpto'gastyaḥ kumbhodbhavo muniḥ | yātrārthaṃ tīrthamāhātmyaṃ jñātvā skandaprasādataḥ
پھر گھڑے سے پیدا ہونے والے منی اگستیہ اُس ایودھیا میں پہنچے؛ اور اسکند کی کرپا سے یاترا کی خاطر وہاں کے تیرتھوں کی مہاتمیا کو جان لیا۔
Narrator (contextual, Vaiṣṇavakhaṇḍa—Ayodhyāmāhātmya; speaker not explicit in the snippet)
Tirtha: Ayodhyā-kṣetra tīrthas (collective)
Type: kshetra
Scene: Agastya—short, radiant, carrying kamaṇḍalu—arrives at Ayodhyā’s sacred precincts; an unseen Skanda-bestowed light of understanding descends, visualized as a subtle aura or scriptural radiance around the sage.
FAQs
Pilgrimage becomes fruitful when guided by revealed knowledge of tīrtha-māhātmya, obtained through divine grace.
Ayodhyā and its network of tīrthas, approached by Agastya for yātrā.
The verse frames yātrā (pilgrimage) as the purpose; detailed rites follow in subsequent verses.