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
ശ്രീസൂര്യൻ അരുളിച്ചെയ്തു—നിങ്ങൾ മുമ്പേ എന്നെ ‘ജയാദിത്യ’ എന്നു സ്തുതിച്ചതിനാൽ, ഞാൻ ‘ജയാദിത്യ’ എന്ന നാമത്തിൽ പ്രസിദ്ധനാകും; അതുകൊണ്ട് ഞാൻ ഇവിടെ എപ്പോഴും വസിക്കും।
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.