Skandapurana 5.277.1293_88

5.277.1293_88

iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ ṣaṣṭhe nāgarakhaṇḍe śrīhāṭakeśvarakṣetramāhātmye dvādaśārkotpattiratnādityotpattimāhātmye yājñavalkyavṛttāṃtavarṇanaṃ nāmāṣṭasaptatyuttaradviśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 278 ..

Thus ends the two hundred and seventy-eighth chapter, named 'Description of the Account of Yājñavalkya, in the Māhātmya of the Origin of the Twelve Suns and the Origin of Ratnāditya, in the Māhātmya of the Sacred Field of Holy Hāṭakeśvara,' in the sixth [section], the Nāgarakhaṇḍa, in the great Purāṇa of Skanda consisting of eighty-one thousand verses.