Skanda Purana 6.1.71.42

6.1.71.42

iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ paṃcama āvaṃtyakhaṃḍe'vantīkṣetramāhātmye vyāsasanatkumārasaṃvāde 'vantīkṣetramāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāmaika saptatitamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 71 .. .. cha ..

Thus ends the seventy-first chapter, entitled 'Description of the Glory of the Sacred Field of Avantī', in the dialogue between Vyāsa and Sanatkumāra, in the Avanti-kṣetra-māhātmya of the fifth Avantī section, in the Skandamahāpurāṇa of eighty-one thousand verses.