Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 4
विद्यायाः साधनं चक्रे सिद्धिं सूर्यादवाप्तवान् । बालादित्येति तेनासौ ततः ख्यातिमगात्प्रभुः
vidyāyāḥ sādhanaṃ cakre siddhiṃ sūryādavāptavān | bālādityeti tenāsau tataḥ khyātimagātprabhuḥ
त्याने त्या विद्येची साधना केली आणि सूर्यदेवांच्या कृपेने सिद्धी प्राप्त केली. म्हणून तो प्रभू ‘बालादित्य’ या नावाने प्रसिद्ध झाला.
Īśvara (Śiva) (continued narration)
Tirtha: Bālārka/Bālāditya
Type: kshetra
Listener: Devī (Pārvatī)
Scene: A sādhaka completes vidyā-sādhana before a radiant youthful Sun-form; the solar orb crowns the shrine, with golden rays touching the devotee’s head as siddhi is conferred; attendants and lotuses suggest purity and awakening.
FAQs
Focused sādhana aligned with a deity yields siddhi; the tīrtha’s very name preserves that spiritual history for pilgrims.
Bālāditya/Bālārka in Prabhāsa-kṣetra, famed for Sun-related spiritual accomplishment.
Vidyā-sādhana (disciplined spiritual practice) connected with Sūrya-upāsanā is implied as the efficacious method.