Skanda Purana — Mahesvara Khanda, Shloka 6
तस्य देवस्य चोत्पत्तिं शृणु पार्थ वदामि ते । शृण्वन्वा कीर्तयन्वापि प्रसादं भास्कराल्लभेत्
tasya devasya cotpattiṃ śṛṇu pārtha vadāmi te | śṛṇvanvā kīrtayanvāpi prasādaṃ bhāskarāllabhet
Höre, o Pārtha, den Ursprung dieser Gottheit, wie ich ihn dir darlege. Wer ihn hört – oder auch nur rezitiert –, erlangt die Gnade Bhāskaras (der Sonne).
Nārada
Tirtha: Jayāditya-sthāna (origin-kathā)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Pārtha
Scene: A sage/narrator addresses Pārtha, beginning the deity’s origin story; listeners sit in a semicircle, with a sun-emblem above, indicating that mere hearing grants Bhāskara’s grace.
FAQs
Purāṇic kathā (sacred narrative) is itself a practice: hearing or reciting it is said to attract divine grace.
Mahīnagaraka’s Jayāditya/Bhāskara setting, as the origin-story is introduced to magnify that locale’s sanctity.
Śravaṇa and kīrtana of the deity’s origin narrative to obtain Bhāskara’s prasāda.