श्रीसूर्य उवाच । तच्छ्रुत्वा स तथा चक्रे ब्राह्मणः श्रद्धयाऽन्वितः । विमुक्तश्च तदा कुष्ठाद्दिव्यदेहमवाप्तवान्
śrīsūrya uvāca | tacchrutvā sa tathā cakre brāhmaṇaḥ śraddhayā'nvitaḥ | vimuktaśca tadā kuṣṭhāddivyadehamavāptavān
Śrī Sūrya sprach: „Als er dies hörte, tat der Brahmane genau so, von Glauben erfüllt. Da wurde er von der Lepra befreit und erlangte einen göttlichen Leib.“
Sūrya
Tirtha: Puṇyahrada
Type: kund
Listener: The audience of the mahatmya (implied)
Scene: After completing the vow, the brāhmaṇa emerges from the pond radiant; diseased skin vanishes, replaced by a luminous divine body, while Sūrya’s rays crown him.
Śraddhā (faith) joined with correct practice makes tīrtha observance spiritually transformative, not merely symbolic.
Puṇyahrada, implied as the site where the brāhmaṇa performed the prescribed observance.
Carrying out the instructed vrata exactly—snāna at the tīrtha and the prescribed devotional acts—resulting in cure and exaltation.