Skandapurana 1.4.14.74_1

1.4.14.74_1

iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ prathame māheśvarakhaṇḍe kaumārīkākhaṇḍe tārakāsuradevendrayuddhopakramavarṇanaṃnāma ṣoḍaśo'dhyāyaḥ.. 16 ..

Thus ends the sixteenth chapter, entitled “Description of the Commencement of the Battle Between Tārakāsura and the Lord of the Gods,” in the Kaumārikākhaṇḍa of the first [section], the Māheśvarakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, a compendium of eighty-one thousand verses.