Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 6
यः पश्यति वटादित्यं षष्ठ्यां चैत्रे विशेषतः । भास्कराकृत्स्नशो दृष्टास्तेन तत्रहि संस्थिताः
yaḥ paśyati vaṭādityaṃ ṣaṣṭhyāṃ caitre viśeṣataḥ | bhāskarākṛtsnaśo dṛṣṭāstena tatrahi saṃsthitāḥ
சைத்ர மாதத்தின் ஷஷ்டி திதியில் சிறப்பாக வட்டாதித்யனை தரிசிப்பவன், முழு பாஸ்கரனையே தரிசித்தவனாகிறான்; ஏனெனில் அங்கே சூரியனின் எல்லா ரூபங்களும் நிலைபெற்றுள்ளன।
Sūta
Tirtha: Vaṭāditya
Type: kshetra
Listener: Addressed to an audience of pilgrims/seekers; immediate vocative not in this verse
Scene: A pilgrim stands before a radiant Sūrya icon beneath/near a venerable banyan (vaṭa), at dawn on Caitra-ṣaṣṭhī; rays spread as if many solar forms are present within one halo.
FAQs
Sacred time and sacred place combine: darśana at the right tithi reveals the deity’s fullness and grants heightened merit.
Vaṭāditya is glorified as a site where the Sun’s complete presence is accessible through darśana.
Darśana of Vaṭāditya, especially on Caitra-śukla/kr̥ṣṇa Ṣaṣṭhī (the sixth lunar day in Caitra).