Skanda Purana 6.1.9.53

6.1.9.53

iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ sahitāyāṃ paṃcama āvantyakhaṇḍe'vantīkṣetra māhātmye mahiṣakuṇḍarudrasaromāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma navamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 9 .. .. cha ..

Thus ends the ninth chapter, entitled “Description of the Māhātmya of Mahiṣakuṇḍa and the Lake of Rudra”, in the Avantīkṣetramāhātmya of the fifth Avantyakhaṇḍa in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, a collection of eighty-one thousand [verses].