Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 69
तथा यो भास्करं पश्येद्बृहद्वलप्रतिष्ठितम् । वत्सरं रविवारेण यावत्कृत्वा क्षणं नरः । स मुच्यते नरो रोगैर्यदि स्याद्रोगसंयुतः
tathā yo bhāskaraṃ paśyedbṛhadvalapratiṣṭhitam | vatsaraṃ ravivāreṇa yāvatkṛtvā kṣaṇaṃ naraḥ | sa mucyate naro rogairyadi syādrogasaṃyutaḥ
तथा यो भास्करं पश्येद् बृहद्बलप्रतिष्ठितम्। रविवारेषु संवत्सरं क्षणमात्रं कृत्वा नरः। स रोगसंयुतोऽपि नरो रोगैः प्रमुच्यते॥
Sūta (continuing narration)
Tirtha: Puṣkara (Bhāskara-darśana at Bṛhadbala-pratiṣṭhita)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A pilgrim, weak with illness, stands at Puṣkara before a radiant Bhāskara image said to be installed by King Bṛhadbala; it is Sunday, the sun’s disc blazing above the lake; the pilgrim offers arghya and receives healing grace.
FAQs
Regular darśana with faith—especially aligned to Sūrya’s day (Sunday)—is praised as a disciplined path to purification and relief from suffering.
The Sūrya image installed by King Bṛhadbala at the chapter’s sacred kṣetra (within the Puṣkara-traya context) is glorified as a healing focus of darśana.
Bhāskara-darśana (beholding Sūrya’s installed image) on each Sunday for one year—even briefly—promised as a remedy for disease.
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