Skandapurana 16.16.27_1

16.16.27_1

iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye arkasthalamāhātmye pātālavivarasunaṃdādimātṛgaṇotpattivarṇanaṃnāma ṣoḍaśo'dhyāyaḥ .. ..16 .. .. ..

Thus ends the sixteenth chapter, entitled 'Description of the Origin of the Host of Mothers Headed by Sunandā at the Opening to Pātāla', in the Māhātmya of Arkasthala in the Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya, the first [part] of the seventh section, Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, a compendium of eighty-one thousand [verses].