śrī budha stotram 2 (skāndapurāṇa)

The Skanda Purana's recension of the Vasishtha hymn to Budha, sharing its opening meditation and its closing verse with the shorter one beside it but taking a different course between them. Where that hymn plays on the sound of its letters, this fills in astrological particulars: north-facing, seated in the north-east, lord of the land of Magadha, of the Atreya gotra, lord of both Virgo and Gemini, giver of mung grain, forever circling Meru to the right. One verse is the best thing in either — whoever worships his own self with a gentle mind wins over Budha, who bears the name of the Gentle One. It names the man it was first spoken to, Dilipa, who asked for it as a king, and it closes on a rite: an eight-armed figure drawn in gold, set on a pot of mung grain bound in yellow cloth, worshipped for one month without a break.