Skanda Purana — Mahesvara Khanda, Shloka 58
श्रीसूर्य उवाच । यस्माद्भवद्भिः पूर्वं हि जयादित्येति चोदितम् । जयादित्य इति ख्यातस्तस्मात्स्थास्येऽत्र सर्वदा
śrīsūrya uvāca | yasmādbhavadbhiḥ pūrvaṃ hi jayādityeti coditam | jayāditya iti khyātastasmātsthāsye'tra sarvadā
শ্ৰী সূৰ্য্যই ক’লে: তোমালোকেই আগতে মোক ‘জয়াদিত্য’ বুলি স্তৱ কৰিছিলা; সেইহেতু মই ‘জয়াদিত্য’ নামেৰে খ্যাত হ’ম, আৰু সেয়েহে মই ইয়াত সদায় অৱস্থিত থাকিম।
Sūrya (Āditya)
Tirtha: Jayāditya
Type: kshetra
Listener: Brāhmaṇa-sages/devotees (addressed as ‘viprāḥ’)
Scene: Sūrya, radiant and crowned, speaks to assembled brāhmaṇa-sages, granting his name ‘Jayāditya’ and promising perpetual residence at the sanctified spot.
FAQs
Sacred naming through devotion becomes a lasting spiritual reality—praise (stuti) can establish enduring divine presence.
Jayāditya-sthāna, explicitly affirmed as Sūrya’s perpetual dwelling place.
Invocation of the deity’s name (‘Jayāditya’) is presented as the cause for the deity’s abiding presence at the site.