Skandapurana 3.1.31.274

3.1.31.274

iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāharūyāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ tṛtīye brahmakhaṇḍe setumāhātmye dhanuṣkoṭipraśaṃsāyāmaśvatthāmasuptamāraṇado ṣaśāṃtivarṇanaṃnāmaikatriṃśo'dhyāyaḥ ..31..

Thus ends the thirty-first chapter, named 'Description of the Quelling of the Guilt of Aśvatthāman for Killing Sleeping Men in Praise of Dhanuṣkoṭi', in the Setumāhātmya of the third section, the Brahmakhaṇḍa, of the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, in the collection of eighty-one thousand verses.