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Praise of the Sacred Geography of Mathurā
तत्फलं लभते स्नातो यथा विश्रान्तिसंज्ञके ॥ कालत्रयं तु वसुधे यः पश्यति गतश्रमः ॥
tatphalaṃ labhate snāto yathā viśrāntisaṃjñake || kālatrayaṃ tu vasudhe yaḥ paśyati gataśramaḥ ||
جیسے ‘وشْرانتی’ نامی مقام میں اسنان کرنے والا وہی پھل پاتا ہے، ویسے ہی اسنان کر کے وہ پھل حاصل ہوتا ہے۔ اور اے زمین! جو—تھکن دور کر کے—تینوں کال (ماضی، حال، مستقبل) کو دیکھتا ہے…
Varāha
It links pilgrimage practice to cosmological idiom (kālatraya), a typical Purāṇic strategy for integrating local sites into a universal sacred framework.
Viśrānti tīrtha is explicitly named; the verse does not specify a modern correlate in this excerpt.
It frames pilgrimage as a disciplined act (snāna) connected to broader reflection on time and human finitude.
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