Skandapurana 2.4.10.141

2.4.10.141

iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ dvitīye vaiṣṇavakhaṇḍe kārtikamāsamāhātmye kārtikaśuklapratipanmāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma daśamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 10 ..

Thus ends the tenth chapter, titled “Description of the Greatness of the Bright Pratipad of Kārtika,” in the Praise of the Month of Kārtika in the second section, the Vaiṣṇavakhaṇḍa, of the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa consisting of eighty-one thousand verses.