This tirtha is next poured over the linga attached to the infant.
The water in which the feet are washed is described as the tirtha or charana tirtha of Siva.
At Setubandha He bathed in the Dhanu-tirtha (Bow shrine).
He that bathes in Analamva or in eternal Andhaka, or in Naimisha, or the tirtha called Swarga, and offers oblations of water to the Pitris, subduing his senses the while, acquires the Merit of a human sacrifice.
Observing a fast for one month and bathing in that sacred Tirtha which is known to be acceptable to Maheswara, one becomes competent to behold the deities.
Bathing in the tirtha known by the name of Ujjanaka which occurs in the retreat of Arshtisena's son, and next in the tirtha that is situate in the retreat of Pinga, one is sure to be cleansed of all one's sins.
Bathing in the confluence of the Ganga and the Yamuna as also at the tirtha in the Kalanjara mountains and offering every day oblations of water to the Pitris for a full month, one acquires the merit that attaches to ten Horse-sacrifices.
One who bathes with restrained senses on the day of the new moon in the tirtha known by the name of Prabhasa, is sure, O thou of mighty arms, of at once attaining to success and immortality.
Indeed, it behoveth thee to expound to me what that Tirtha is which conduces to the greatest purity.
Probably, what is meant by this is that the Understanding, containing the waters of Truth, forms a part of this Tirtha as the lakes of Pushkara form a part of the Tirtha called by that name.
By exposing oneself to heat in the tirtha called Vindhya, a person devoted to truth and endued with compassion for all creatures should then betake himself to austere penances, actuated by humility.
By repairing to Chandalikasrama and bathing in the tirtha called Kokamukha, having subsisted for sometime on potherbs alone and worn rags for vestments, one is sure to obtain ten maidens of great beauty for one's spouses.
Bathing in Devika and the lake known by the name of Sundarika as also in the Tirtha called Aswini, one acquires, in one's next life, great beauty of form.
Bathing in the tirtha called Swargamarga one is sure to proceed to the regions of Brahman.
One should next, O king, repair to the tirtha called Sama in Jayanti.
One should then proceed, O king, to that celebrated and sacred tirtha where the Saraswati uniteth with the Aruna.
There is a celebrated tirtha of the name of Sindhuttama, which destroyeth every sin.
He is a poor man who having gone to a tirtha hath not fasted for three nights, who hath not given away gold, and who hath not distributed kine.
There in that tirtha is the hermitage of the great Rishi Matanga of soul under complete control.
Arriving at Darvisankramana, that tirtha which is worshipped of the three worlds, a person obtaineth the merit of the horse-sacrifice and goeth to heaven.
Holy and sin-destroying, that tirtha is much regarded by the Rishis.
There also in the Ganga is the tirtha famed over the three worlds, called Ramaprapatana, which conferreth the merit of ten horse-sacrifices.
That tirtha cleanseth from every sin, and it is there that the gods including Brahma worship Maheswara.
Bathing in the tirtha called Manojava that is there, one obtaineth the merit of the gift of a thousand kine.
Proceeding next to the tirtha called Urvasi, and then to Somasrama, a wise man by bathing next at Kumbhakarnasrama becometh adored in the world.
From compassion for the Brahmanas, that tirtha was made by Darbhi in days of old.
Proceeding next to Sarpadevi, that excellent tirtha of the Nagas, one obtaineth the merit of the Agnishtoma sacrifice and attaineth to the region of the Nagas.
There in that tirtha is the asylum of Vasishtha that is known over the three worlds.
One should next proceed, O king, to the excellent tirtha called Renuka.
Arriving at that tirtha which is adored by the three worlds one earneth, O king, by bathing there, numerous worlds for himself.
A visit to Gandharba at its source, or Sindhuttama the northern-most tirtha on its banks, was equivalent to a horse-offering.
Now there was in that neighbourhood a Lama (6), living in contemplation in a tirtha (7) on the river bank.
At the Varaha-tirtha Vishnu had once appeared in the form of a wild boar.
Visits paid to the tirtha are more meritorious than even offerings" (made elsewhere).
In other places it is prescribed that visits paid to some one particular tirtha are equal to an offering of one hundred cows; to another, a thousand.
Fasting in thattirtha for three days, one is even cleansed from the sin of slaying a Brahmana.
O best of the Bharatas, there is a tirthacalled Sreekunja in the Saraswati.
O virtuous one, one should then go to the excellent tirtha called Vimala, where to this day may be seen fishes of golden and silver hues.
Proceeding next to the tirtha called the Panchananda, with subdued sense and regulated diet, one obtaineth the fruit of the five sacrifices that have been mentioned one after another in the scriptures.
Bathing in that tirtha celebrated over three worlds, and worshipping the god of light, one goeth to the region of Aditya and rescueth his own race.
That sin-destroying tirtha known by the name of Vitasta, is situate in the country of the Kasmiras and is the abode of the Naga Takshaka.
The tirthas of the Saraswati are more sacred than the Saraswati herself; and the tirthacalled Prithudaka is more sacred than all the tirthas of the Saraswati.
The sense of the verse is this: he who meets with a sudden death in a tirtha or sacred place, does not become emancipated but obtains another body in his next life similar to the one he loses.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tirtha" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
