Skandapurana 1.3.32.153_1

1.3.32.153_1

iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ prathame māheśvarakhaṇḍe kedārakhaṃḍe śivaśāstre śivapārvatīdyūtaprasaṃgena pārvatīhāritasarvasvasya śivasya kailāsaṃ vihāya tapovanagamanavarṇanaṃnāma catustriṃśo'dhyāyaḥ.. 34 .. cha ..

Thus ends the thirty-fourth chapter, entitled "The Description of Śiva's Departure to the Penance Grove after Leaving Kailāsa, Having Lost All His Belongings to Pārvatī in the Dice Game," in the Śiva-Śāstra of the Kedārakhaṇḍa, in the first Māheśvarakhaṇḍa of the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa comprising eighty-one thousand verses.