The water of the Sarayū river at Ayodhyā provides bliss, good luck and health.He, who remembers the sacred Ayodhyā, is blessed with wealth, reputation, long life, virtues and destruction of sins.By a darśana of the Janma-bhūmi or remembrance of the Rāma-nāma or bathing in the Sarayū river all sins are destroyed.Having reached the temple of Rāma men, who have his darśana (glimpse) or even his rememberance, are liberated from the charana-trayam, i.e.All sins of those persons, who after being purified by bathing on the Sarayū’s bank visit the janma-bhūmi, are effaced, by its mere glimpse, for hundreds, thousands and crores of kalpas.He, who dwells on the bank of the Sarayū river and lives on vegetables, roots and fruits and feeds one Vipra, will get the benefit of feeding one crore Vipras.Even if one remembers the auspicious pilgrim city Ayodhyā, he is bound not to be born till the deluge. Rare are the opportunities to reside at Ayodhyā, to bathe in the Sarayū river, to visit the birthplace of Rāma and to have the darśana of Lord Rāma.Sages call all these the limbs of Vishnu. Mathurā is considered His neck and Varanasī the tip of His nose. Yogis consider Dvarakā His navel and Haridvāra His heart. Ujjaina is the foot of Vishnu and Kāñchīpurī is His waist. Some scholars date it to 'considerably earlier' than 1052 CE. It is mentioned in the Brahma-yamala, and is quoted in the Kularnava Tantra.
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