Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 2
मूलश्रीपतिना देवी प्रोक्ता स्थापय भास्करम् । श्रुत्वा देवोदितं देवी स्थापयामास भास्करम्
mūlaśrīpatinā devī proktā sthāpaya bhāskaram | śrutvā devoditaṃ devī sthāpayāmāsa bhāskaram
मूलश्रीपति विष्णूंनी देवीस सांगितले— “भास्कर (सूर्य) स्थाप.” देववचन ऐकून देवीने भास्कराची विधिपूर्वक स्थापना केली।
Mārkaṇḍeya
Tirtha: Mūlasthāna-Bhāskara (as established by Devī)
Type: kshetra
Listener: (Implied audience—sages/śaunaka-style assembly; not explicit here)
Scene: Viṣṇu (Śrīpati) instructs Devī to establish Bhāskara; Devī performs the act of installation on a luminous riverbank, with a solar icon emerging as a consecrated presence.
FAQs
Sacred installations are framed as acts done in obedience to divine command, linking tīrtha power to divine intention and dharma.
The context is Sūryatīrtha/Mūlasthāna, where Bhāskara is said to have been established.
The act of ‘sthāpana’—establishing the Sun-deity (Bhāskara)—is referenced as the foundational sacred act.