Skanda Purana — Mahesvara Khanda, Shloka 6
तस्य देवस्य चोत्पत्तिं शृणु पार्थ वदामि ते । शृण्वन्वा कीर्तयन्वापि प्रसादं भास्कराल्लभेत्
tasya devasya cotpattiṃ śṛṇu pārtha vadāmi te | śṛṇvanvā kīrtayanvāpi prasādaṃ bhāskarāllabhet
اے پارتھ! اُس دیوتا کی پیدائش سنو، میں تمہیں بیان کرتا ہوں۔ اسے سننے یا اس کا کیرتن کرنے سے بھی بھاسکر (سورج دیو) کی عنایت حاصل ہوتی ہے۔
Nārada
Tirtha: Jayāditya-sthāna (origin-kathā)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Pārtha
Scene: A sage/narrator addresses Pārtha, beginning the deity’s origin story; listeners sit in a semicircle, with a sun-emblem above, indicating that mere hearing grants Bhāskara’s grace.
FAQs
Purāṇic kathā (sacred narrative) is itself a practice: hearing or reciting it is said to attract divine grace.
Mahīnagaraka’s Jayāditya/Bhāskara setting, as the origin-story is introduced to magnify that locale’s sanctity.
Śravaṇa and kīrtana of the deity’s origin narrative to obtain Bhāskara’s prasāda.