Skandapurana 3.2.27.115

3.2.27.115

iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśīti sāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ tṛtīye brahmakhaṇḍe pātālakhaṇḍe dharmāraṇyamāhātmye balāhakopākhyānavarṇanaṃnāma saptaviṃśo'dhyāyaḥ .. 27 ..

Thus ends the twenty-seventh chapter, entitled 'The Description of the Story of Balāhaka' in the Dharmāraṇyamāhātmya, in the Pātālakhaṇḍa of the third Brahmakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skandapurāṇa consisting of eighty-one thousand verses. // 27