Skandapurana 5.154

Sūta said:
Likewise, others abide there: the eight Vasus, best of brahmins,
settled together in one place, constantly worshipped.

Likewise, the eleven Rudras, the twelve Ādityas,
and the other two, the physicians of the gods, the Aśvins, are stationed there.

Deities reside there, commanders of tens of millions,
each one, O best of brahmins, terrified by the fear of the Kali age,

in the sacred field born of Hāṭakeśvara, in order always to obtain a share of sacrifices.
When the eighth day in the bright fortnight has arrived in the spring month,

the person who, having become pure, having bathed and worn washed garments,
having satisfied the best of brahmins, should then worship those Vasus,

with devotion using the mantra, 'May the Vasus make you...',
and should then offer food-offering with [the mantra], 'May the Vasus with the metre...'

Then, one who with focused mind offers fragrant incense
should recite this mantra: 'May the Vasus conquer you...'

Thereafter, O best of brahmins, whoever performs the wave-offering of lamps
with 'May the Vasus conquer you...': hear what fruit that indeed yields.

Whatever fruit there would be from ten million virgins being worshipped,
all that is attained through the eight Vasus being thoroughly worshipped.

Likewise, for the twelve Ādityas stationed in that sacred field,
having installed them and worshipped them on a Sunday that is the seventh lunar day,
endowed with perfect faith, with flowers, fragrances, and unguents,

subsequently, before them, all twenty-one
rites known as the vow of the Ādityas—hear the meritorious fruit of that.

A person who would worship twelve crores of suns,
he attains that entire fruit by worshipping [them]; there is no doubt about this.

Likewise, regarding the eleven Rudras, O best of brahmins, who in that sacred field
are situated in one place: hear the fruit of their worship.

Whoever worships those lords of the gods with devotion after establishing them
on the fourteenth day of the bright fortnight of Caitra, and chants the Śatarudriya,

by him eleven crores [of deities] are worshipped in measurement;
there is no doubt about this, this truth has been spoken by me.

Likewise, the two Aśvins, the physicians of the gods, who are stationed there:
in the month of Āśvina, on the full moon day during the nakṣatra Aśvinī,

whoever, having worshipped them, recites the hymn to the Aśvins,
by him merit multiplied two-crore-fold is fully attained.

This entire māhātmya relating to the Vasus,
the Ādityas, the Rudras, and the Aśvins has been told to you, O best of brahmins.

Sūta said:
Likewise, there is another there, established by Yājñavalkya,
renowned as Puṣpāditya, who grants all desires to mortals.

Whatever desire a human being contemplates and worships him for,
he attains that in full, even if it should be exceedingly difficult to attain.

The childless obtains sons; the one who seeks wealth would obtain wealth;
one with many enemies [attains] destruction of enemies; one who seeks learning becomes a knower of scripture.

A person who beholds him on a Sunday on the seventh lunar day
is freed from the sin born of the day, even a great one, O best of brahmins.

Through worship, sin born of a year is destroyed;
it goes to destruction, there is no doubt, just as darkness does at sunrise.

And whoever performs one hundred and eight circumambulations
with fruit in hand is freed from sins committed from birth until death.

Whatever desire one performing circumambulation yearns for,
he undoubtedly attains that; one without desire would attain liberation.

Whoever performs the ceremonial bath on a solar transition on a Sunday,
either in Aries or in Libra, his desired goal is achieved.

Therefore, with every effort, by those desiring their cherished fruit,
that deity is to be viewed and especially worshipped.

Whatever fruit one attains through all the deities born in Camatkārapura being seen,
by seeing him one attains that fruit.

The sages said:
If that deity was indeed established by Yājñavalkya,
why is he called Puṣpāditya? You ought to tell us this.

Sūta said:
Here I shall relate to you an ancient narrative
of how Puṣpāditya, established by Yājñavalkya, came to be.

There is upon the surface of the earth here a great, excellent city called Vaidiśa,
crowded with various mansions, adorned with excellent ramparts,

thronged with hundreds of gardens, beautified with ponds.
There lived an excellent king renowned as Citravarman.

There was no famine, no disease, and no fear caused by thieves
while that knower of dharma, ever devoted to righteousness, ruled.

In that city was a kṣatriya by birth known as Maṇibhadra;
he was endowed with wealth inherited from his father and grandfathers.

The entire city, as well as the king together with his ministers, / depended on wealth acquired through usury whenever a need arose.

He was hunchbacked in body and overcome by old age, / his limbs covered with wrinkles and grey hair, and of an exceedingly ugly appearance.

And likewise, though possessing abundant wealth, he was a vile miser; / that evil-minded man gave nothing at all to anyone, / nor, tormented by craving, did he ever consume anything himself.

Even being such, exceedingly deformed and utterly wicked, / seeing a beautiful maiden of his own caste, he asked for her hand.

She had lips like the bimba fruit, a charming body, and a slender waist that could be grasped in a fist; / she had large eyes like lotus petals, hidden ankles, and beautiful hair;

she was red in seven parts of her body and deep in three, / endowed with all auspicious marks, born of good lineage, and exceedingly delightful,

[born] from an impoverished and afflicted kṣatriya, O best among the twice-born! / He reported that entire matter to his wife.

Hearing that, she swooned away in sorrow. / Then he comforted her with words containing examples:

The kṣatriya said: / 'There is no learning, no craft, no work, and no art, / there is no knowledge that is not offered by seekers of wealth to rich men.

In this world, even a stranger acts like kin to the wealthy, / while to the poor, even one's own kin acts like a villain when a need arises.

For from wealth increased and accumulated from here and there, / all undertakings proceed, just as rivers flow from mountains.

That even the unworthy of worship is worshipped, that even the unapproachable is approached, / that even the unpraiseworthy is praised—that is the consequence of wealth.

All activities in this world are like the sense organs, such as eating. / For all reasons, wealth is declared to be the means of accomplishing everything.

Desirous of wealth, this mortal world frequents even a cremation ground; / one without wealth goes far away, having abandoned even his father.'

Thus ends the one hundred and fifty-fifth chapter, named 'Description of the Kṣatriya's Consoling of His Wife for Giving the Maiden to Maṇibhadra in the Account of Maṇibhadra at the Puṣpāditya Temple' in the Māhātmya of Hāṭakeśvara Kṣetra, in the Nāgarakhaṇḍa, the sixth [part] of the eighty-one-thousand-verse collection of the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa.