Skandapurana 3.2.40.83_4

3.2.40.83_4

iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ tṛtīye brahmakhaṇḍe pūrvabhāge dharmāraṇyamāhātmye dharmāraṇyanivāsivyavasthāvarṇanapūrvaka dharmāraṇyapurāṇaśravaṇamāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma catvāriṃśo'dhyāyaḥ .. 40 ..

Thus ends the fortieth chapter, named 'The Description of the māhātmya of Hearing the Dharmāraṇya Purāṇa, Preceded by the Description of the Regulations for the Inhabitants of Dharmāraṇya', in the Dharmāraṇyamāhātmya, in the first part of the third Brahmakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, a compendium of eighty-one thousand [verses]. // 40