Skandapurana 5.19.37_1

5.19.37_1

iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ sahitāyāṃ ṣaṣṭhe nāgarakhaṇḍe hāṭakeśvarakṣetramāhātmye māṃsādādipretatrayasya vidūrathakṛtaśrāddhadvārā muktidāne pitṛkūpikātīrthamā hātmyavarṇanaṃnāmaikonaviṃśo'dhyāyaḥ .. 19 .. .. cha .. ..

Thus, in the holy Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, in the collection of eighty-one thousand [verses], in the sixth Nāgarakhaṇḍa, in the glorification of the sacred field of Hāṭakeśvara, the nineteenth chapter, entitled 'The Description of the māhātmya of the Sacred Ford of Pitṛkūpikā in the Bestowal of Liberation upon the Three Ghosts, Beginning with the Meat-eater, by Means of the Śrāddha Performed by Vidūratha.'