Skanda Purana 5.253.254

5.253.254

iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ ṣaṣṭhe nāgarakhaṇḍe hāṭakeśvarakṣetramāhātmye śeṣaśāyyupākhyāne brahmanāradasaṃvāde cāturmāsya māhātmye haratāṃḍavanarttanavarṇanaṃnāma catuḥpañcāśaduttaradviśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 254 ..

Thus ends the two hundred fifty-fourth chapter, named 'Description of Hara's Tāṇḍava Dance', in the Cāturmāsya-māhātmya within the narrative of Śeṣaśāyin, in the conversation between Brahmā and Nārada, in the Māhātmya of the Hāṭakeśvara Sacred Field, in the Nāgarakhaṇḍa, the sixth [part] of the Skanda Mahāpurāṇa consisting of eighty-one thousand verses.