Skandapurana 5.225.758_19

5.225.758_19

iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ ṣaṣṭhe nāgara khaṇḍe hāṭakeśvarakṣetramāhātmye śrāddhakalpe bhīṣmayudhiṣṭhirasaṃvāde tattadduritaprāpyaikaviṃśatinarakayātanātannivāraṇopāyavarṇanaṃnāma ṣaḍviṃśatyuttaradviśata tamo'dhyāyaḥ ..226 ..

Thus ends the two hundred twenty-sixth chapter, named 'Description of the torments of the twenty-one hells reached through respective sins and the means of averting them', in the Śrāddhakalpa within the dialogue between Bhīṣma and Yudhiṣṭhira, in the Māhātmya of Hāṭakeśvarakṣetra, in the sixth Nāgarakhaṇḍa of the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa consisting of eighty-one thousand verses.