Sahasranāma of Sūrya
Sūrya Sahasranāma, “the thousand names of Sūrya”
The sahasranāma of Sūrya is the praise of Bhagavān Sūrya by a thousand names, with which Sāmba, the son of Śrī Kṛshṇa and Jāmbavatī, praised him and received his darśana. The Brahma Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa names it in two chapters.
Sāmba tells Vasishṭha
In the Brahma Parva, Sumantu tells King Śatānīka of the dialogue of the dvija and Śaṅkha Muni. Asked about the glory of Sūrya, Śaṅkha tells what Sāmba once told Vasishṭha Maharshi. Sāmba, freed of disease, came to Vasishṭha’s āśrama and bowed at his feet. Vasishṭha asked how the kushṭha that had cracked his whole body had gone, and how he shone with such beauty. Sāmba said: “I praised Divākara, Lokanātha, with his sahasranāma. Swāmi, that Devadeva gave me darśana in person.” Then he told Vasishṭha the rule of upāsanā by which Bhagavān Sūrya was pleased with him.
Source: Bhavishya Purāṇa, Brahma Parva, Chapter 66
The Stavarāja
In a later chapter Sumantu tells that Sāmba, his body wasted by disease and tapas, praised Sahasrāṃśu Divākara with his thousand names, and Bhagavān Sūrya appeared to him in a dream and taught him in its place the Stavarāja of twenty-one names, by which Sāmba was freed of his disease.
Source: Bhavishya Purāṇa, Brahma Parva, Chapter 128
Sources
- Bhavishya Purāṇa, Brahma Parva, Chapters 66, 128