Skanda Purana — Vishnu Khanda, Shloka 132
अग्निहोत्राणि यांत्वग्रे दीप्यमानानि सर्वशः । वाजपेयातिरात्राणि निर्यातु च ममाग्रतः
agnihotrāṇi yāṃtvagre dīpyamānāni sarvaśaḥ | vājapeyātirātrāṇi niryātu ca mamāgrataḥ
“اگنی ہوترا کی آگیں میرے آگے آگے چلیں، ہر سمت دہکتی ہوئی؛ اور واجپَیَہ اور اَتیراتر یَجْن بھی میرے سامنے روانہ ہوں۔”
Rāma (direct speech within Ayodhyāmāhātmya)
Tirtha: Ayodhyā-kṣetra (yajña-bhūmi ambience)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Pilgrims/hearers of Ayodhyā-māhātmya
Scene: Rāma commands that blazing Agnihotra fires and the grandeur of Vājapeya and Atirātra rites symbolically go before him, turning departure into a moving sacrificial procession.
FAQs
A dhārmic life culminates in honoring sacred fire and Vedic order; rites become a sanctified escort for the righteous.
Ayodhyā, portrayed as a Vedic-sacral landscape where yajñas and sacred fire naturally accompany the avatāra’s acts.
Agnihotra is to proceed foremost, along with major Soma-sacrifices—Vājapeya and Atirātra—forming a ritual procession.