Skandapurana 1.4.42.83_1

1.4.42.83_1

iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ prathame māheśvarakhaṇḍe kaumārikākhaṇḍe bhaṭṭādityamāhātmye divyavarṇanaṃnāma catuścatvāriṃśo'dhyāyaḥ.. 44 .. cha ..

Thus ends the forty-fourth chapter, named ‘Description of the Divine Ordeals,’ in the glorification of Bhaṭṭāditya, in the Kaumārikākhaṇḍa of the first [section], the Māheśvarakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa of eighty-one thousand verses. 44.