Skandapurana 5.243.244

5.243.244

iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ ṣaṣṭhe nāgarakhaṇḍe hāṭakeśvarakṣetramāhātmya śeṣaśāyyupākhyāne brahmanāradasaṃvāde cāturmāsyamāhātmye śāligrāmaśilāsumūrttyutpattivarṇanaṃnāma catuścatvāriṃśaduttaradvi śatatamodhyāyaḥ .. 244 ..

Thus ends the two hundred and forty-fourth chapter, entitled 'Description of the Origin of the Images in the Śāligrāma Stones,' in the Māhātmya of Cāturmāsya, in the Dialogue of Brahmā and Nārada, within the Story of Śeṣaśāyin, in the Māhātmya of the Sacred Field of Hāṭakeśvara, in the Nāgarakhaṇḍa, the sixth [section], in the Skanda Mahāpurāṇa consisting of eighty-one thousand verses.