Skandapurana 5.262.895_9

5.262.895_9

iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhsryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ ṣaṣṭhe nāgarakhaṇḍe hāṭakeśvarakṣetramāhātmye śeṣaśāyyupākhyāne brahmanāradasaṃvāde cāturmāsyamāhātmye matsyendranāthotpattikathanaṃ nāma triṣaṣṭyuttaradviśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ..263..

Thus ends the two hundred and sixty-third chapter, entitled “The Narration of the Origin of Matsyendranātha,” in the Cāturmāsyamāhātmya, in the story of Śeṣaśāyin, in the conversation between Brahmā and Nārada, in the Hāṭakeśvarakṣetramāhātmya, in the sixth section, the Nāgarakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skandapurāṇa, the Great Purāṇa in eighty-one thousand verses. (263)