Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 11
पश्चात्तत्पुरतस्तेषां समस्तान्येकविंशतिः । आदित्यव्रत संज्ञानि तस्य पुण्यफलं शृणु
paścāttatpuratasteṣāṃ samastānyekaviṃśatiḥ | ādityavrata saṃjñāni tasya puṇyaphalaṃ śṛṇu
اس کے بعد، انہی کے روبرو، کل اکیس ایسے ورت ہیں جو ‘آدتیہ ورت’ کے نام سے معروف ہیں؛ ان سے پیدا ہونے والا مقدس ثواب سنو۔
Skanda (deduced from Nāgarakhaṇḍa Tīrthamāhātmya narration style)
Type: kshetra
Scene: Before the assembled Twelve Ādityas, a teacher-priest gestures as if enumerating observances; a scroll or palm-leaf manuscript is present; devotees listen, preparing to undertake vratas.
FAQs
Disciplined vows (vratas) structured as a sequence are portrayed as a systematic path to accruing puṇya and spiritual uplift.
The vratas are taught in the setting of Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra where the Ādityas are installed.
A set of twenty-one observances termed Āditya-vratas is introduced, with a promise to explain their merits.