Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 206
इति श्रीस्कांदे महापुराण एकाशीतिसाहस्र्यां संहितायां सप्तमे प्रभासखण्डे प्रथमे प्रभास क्षेत्रमाहात्म्ये सरस्वत्यब्धिसंगमे श्राद्धकल्पे श्राद्धविधिवर्णनंनाम षडुत्तरद्विशततमोऽध्यायः
iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsa kṣetramāhātmye sarasvatyabdhisaṃgame śrāddhakalpe śrāddhavidhivarṇanaṃnāma ṣaḍuttaradviśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ
Thus ends, in the revered Skanda Mahāpurāṇa—within the compendium of eighty-one thousand ślokas—the 206th chapter, entitled “Description of the Procedure for Śrāddha,” in the Prabhāsa Khaṇḍa, in the Prabhāsa-kṣetra Māhātmya, in the Śrāddha-kalpa at the confluence of the Sarasvatī and the ocean.
Sūta/Lomaharṣaṇa (editorial colophon voice)
Tirtha: Sarasvatī–abdhisaṅgama at Prabhāsa (chapter locus)
Type: sangam
Scene: A scribe or reciter closes a manuscript at the end of a chapter; behind him, a symbolic map-like vignette of Prabhāsa: sangam, ocean, and temple; the title ‘Śrāddha-vidhi-varṇana’ inscribed.
FAQs
It functions as a textual closure, emphasizing that Śrāddha-vidhi at Prabhāsa is a complete, authoritative teaching.
Prabhāsa-kṣetra and the Sarasvatī–ocean confluence are explicitly named as the setting of the teaching.
No new prescription; it titles the chapter as the Śrāddha procedure (vidhi) within the Śrāddha-kalpa.
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