Skandapurana 5.247.248

5.247.248

iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ ṣaṣṭhe nāgarakhaṇḍe hāṭakeśvarakṣetramāhātmye śeṣaśāyyupākhyāne brahmanāradasaṃvāde cāturmāsyamāhātmye paijavanopākhyāne pālāśamahimavarṇanaṃnāmāṣṭacatvāriṃśaduttaradviśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 248 ..

Thus ends the two hundred and forty-eighth chapter, entitled “Description of the Greatness of the Palāśa,” in the Paijavana narrative within the Māhātmya of Cāturmāsya, in the dialogue between Brahmā and Nārada within the narrative of the Sleeper on Śeṣa, in the Māhātmya of the Hāṭakeśvara Sacred Field, in the Nāgarakhaṇḍa, the sixth [section] of the Skanda Mahāpurāṇa consisting of eighty-one thousand verses. // 248