Skandapurana 5.210

Viśvāmitra said: / Having explained the cause of the king's poverty and leprosy, / Nārada, the best of sages, spoke again.

Nārada said: / All this has been told to you, O king, the cause of leprosy / and of poverty, which I knew correctly with my divine eye.

Now I will explain how your defeat / at the hands of your enemies arose here from the disrespect shown to brahmins.

Whoever is consecrated in the kingship here as the lord of Ānarta, / goes first to the village of the Nāgaras with great devotion.

What was assigned for them, O king, was not given by you through negligence; / and those twice-born, begging repeatedly, were turned away.

Likewise, under the influence of anger, other land-grants belonging to the twice-born / that had descended from your fathers and grandfathers were revoked by you.

Because of that, your defeat by enemies occurred here. / Knowing this, grant royal charters to the lords among the twice-born, O king!

And release those [lands] which were seized! / Hearing that, that king then with great devotion at Śaṅkhatīrtha,

having bathed and summoned the brahmins together with their intermediary, / and having washed their feet before Śaṅkhāditya, O king,

the king, having washed their feet, gave a hundred / and twenty-six charters to the noble Nāgaras.

In the meantime, the enemies who were established there / all met their death through the grace of the brahmins.

Viśvāmitra said: / All this power arising from Śaṅkhatīrtha has been told to you, / O best of kings. What more do you wish to hear?

Thus ends the two hundred and eleventh chapter, entitled "Description of the Śaṅkhatīrthamāhātmya", in the Hāṭakeśvarakṣetramāhātmya of the sixth section, the Nāgarakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, a compendium of eighty-one thousand verses.