Skandapurana 5.5.28_1

5.5.28_1

iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ ṣaṣṭhe nāgarakhaṇḍe hāṭakeśvarakṣetramāhātmye triśaṃkūpākhyāne viśvāmitreṇa triśaṃkoḥ saśarīrasvargārohaṇāya dvādaśavārṣikayajñakaraṇaṃnāma pañcamo'dhyāyaḥ..5..

Thus ends the fifth chapter, titled “Viśvāmitra’s Performance of the Twelve-Year Sacrifice for Triśaṅku to Ascend to Heaven in Bodily Form,” in the story of Triśaṅku, in the glorification of the Hāṭakeśvara sacred field, in the Nāgarakhaṇḍa, the sixth [book] in the eighty-one-thousand-verse collection of the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa.