Skandapurana 5.263.264

5.263.264

iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ ṣaṣṭhe nāgarakhaṇḍe hāṭakeśvarakṣetramāhātmye śeṣaśāyyupākhyāne brahmanāradasaṃvāde cāturmāsyamāhātmye tārakāsuravadho nāma catuḥṣaṣṭyuttaradviśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ..264..

Thus ends the two hundred and sixty-fourth chapter, entitled “The Slaying of Tārakāsura”, in the section on the māhātmya of the Cāturmāsya, in the dialogue between Brahmā and Nārada, in the account of the one who reclines on Śeṣa, in the māhātmya of the sacred field of Hāṭakeśvara, in the Nāgarakhaṇḍa, the sixth [part] of the eighty-one-thousand-verse collection of the glorious Skandapurāṇa.