Skandapurana 16.259

Īśvara said:
Then one should go, O great goddess, to Parṇāditya, the lord of gods,
situated on the northern bank, on the shore of the eastern Sarasvatī.

Formerly in the Tretā age, O goddess, a twice-born named Parṇāda,
having reached Prabhāsa kṣetra, performed severe austerity;
endowed with supreme devotion, he worshipped the Sun.

Having then propitiated the Sun with incense, garlands, and ointments,
with Vedic praises and hymns, he remained composed day and night.

As he was meditating thus, after a long time,
the blessed Sun was pleased and spoke this speech:

'I am well pleased, O best of brahmins, by this austerity, O one of good vows.
Choose a boon—may it be well with you—whatever is always desired in your heart.'

The brahmin said:
'This itself is the boon and wish: that the Blessed Lord himself is pleased.
Darśana of you, O lord of gods, is difficult to attain even in dreams.

If a boon must certainly be given to me, O Maker of Day,
be ever present here, O divine Bhāskara!

By your grace, may they go to your world, O Maker of Day!'
Having said, 'So it shall be,' the Sun vanished.

Parṇāda too remained there, intent upon his worship.
There, in the month of Bhādrapada, on the sixth lunar day, one should perform ritual ablution;
then one should view Parṇāditya—he would not suffer distress.

Whatever fruit is attained from a hundred cows properly given at Prayāga,
a mortal obtains that fruit from the darśana of Parṇāditya.

Those who suffer from severe leprosy, lameness, and scabs,
and do not know of Parṇāditya—surely they are dull of intellect.

Thus ends the two hundred fifty-ninth chapter, named 'Description of the Māhātmya of Parṇāditya', in the first [part], the Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya, in the seventh [book], the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, a collection of eighty-one thousand [verses].