Skandapurana 16.282.282

16.282.282

iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye cyavaneśvaramāhātmye cyavanena nāsatyayajñabhāgapratirodhakavajra mocanodyataśakranāśāya kṛtyodbhavamadanāmakamahā'surotpādanavṛttāntavarṇanaṃnāma dvyaśītyuttaradviśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 282 .. ..

Thus ends the two hundred and eighty-second chapter, titled 'The Description of the Account of the Creation of the Great Asura Named Mada through a Destructive Rite to Slay Śakra Who Was Preparing to Hurl His Thunderbolt Obstructing the Sacrificial Portion of the Nāsatyas by Cyavana,' in the Cyavaneśvara-māhātmya, in the First Prabhāsa-kṣetra-māhātmya, in the Seventh Prabhāsa-khaṇḍa, in the glorious Skandapurāṇa, a compendium of eighty-one thousand [verses].