Skandapurana 16.18.18_1

16.18.18_1

iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye śivaśirobhūṣaṇa candrotpattivṛttāntavarṇanaṃnāmāṣṭādaśo'dhyāyaḥ .. 18 ..

Thus ends the eighteenth chapter, entitled 'Description of the Account of the Origin of the Moon, the Ornament on Śiva's Head,' in the first [part], the Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya, in the seventh [section], the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, a collection of eighty-one thousand [verses]. 18.