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What is a tirtha?

What is a tirtha? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (Hinduism, Jainism) A site of pilgrimage.
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Tirtha Raj Rasaili, a radio reporter in Nepal, saw the awful conditions of the street children and he was convinced that there was a way of helping them turning their live into a positive direction.
The Sanskrit and Hindi word for pilgrimage centre is tirtha, literally a river ford or crossing place.
Good Brahmanas, O king, by casting off their hair in that tirtha acquire holiness by pranayama and finally attain to a high state.
For the temple, so the Brahmins will tell you, is a tirtha, a crossing place, linking the profane to the sacred.
One should next, O king, repair to the tirtha called sama in Jayanti.
One should next proceed to the tirtha known as gayatri celebrated over the three worlds.

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