Skandapurana 4.51.4.7

4.51.4.7

with garlands of diverse arrangements made of pāṭalā and campaka flowers, / with red sandal mixed with saffron, aguru, and camphor, / with incenses that enchant the gods, their fragrance spreading across the sky, / with lamps having wicks of camphor, and with offerings of rice boiled in milk and ghee, / with duly performed libations of argha, and with recitation of hymns to the son of Sūrya. / As he thus worshipped, the sun became a granter of boons to him, / and said, "Speak a boon, O Vimala of spotless deeds! / Let this leprosy of yours depart; ask for another boon again." / Hearing such speech from the garlanded with rays, Vimala / bowed like a staff upon the ground, his body hair bristling with joy. / Slowly he addressed the sun of the single-wheeled chariot: / "O eye of the universe, immeasurable Self, dispeller of the great gloom! / If the Lord is pleased, if a boon is to be given to me, / then for those who are devoted to your worship, let there be no leprosy in their lineage. / Nor let other diseases befall them, let there be no poverty for them, / and let no distress arise for your devotees, O thousand-rayed one!" / The holy Sun said: / "Let it be so, O very wise one! Hear another supreme boon: / this image of mine has been worshipped by you in this way in Kāśī, O noble-minded one. / My presence here beside it I will never abandon; / and this image will become famed by your name: / 'Vimalāditya' is its designation, ever granting boons to devotees, / the destroyer of all diseases, and the maker of an end to all sins." / Having thus bestowed the boons, the sun vanished right there; / and Vimala, his body cleansed of disease, went to his own home. / In this manner, that Vimalāditya in Vārāṇasī bestows auspiciousness; / merely by the sight of him, leprosy is destroyed. / And the man who hears this story of Vimalāditya / attains stainless purity and is freed from mental impurities. / Skanda said: / There is another [sun] there, Gaṅgāditya, to the south of Viśveśa.