Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 83
इति श्रीस्कान्दे महापुराण एकाशीति साहस्र्यां संहितायां सप्तमे प्रभासखण्डे प्रथमे प्रभासक्षेत्रमाहात्म्ये योगेश्वरीमाहात्म्यवर्णनंनाम त्र्यशीतितमोऽध्यायः
iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśīti sāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye yogeśvarīmāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma tryaśītitamo'dhyāyaḥ
Thus ends the eighty-third chapter, entitled “The Description of the Greatness of Yogeśvarī,” in the Prabhāsa-khaṇḍa, within the Prabhāsa-kṣetra-māhātmya, of the Śrī Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, in the Saṁhitā of eighty-one thousand verses.
Narratorial colophon (textual marker)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra (contextual frame)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A manuscript-like closing tableau: sages or a narrator concluding the ‘Yogeśvarī-māhātmya’ chapter, with Prabhāsa’s coastal sacred landscape hinted in the background (temple spire, sea, pilgrims).
FAQs
This is a colophon; its function is archival—marking the completion and title of the chapter that glorifies Yogeśvarī.
Prabhāsa-kṣetra, indicated by the section title Prabhāsakṣetra-māhātmya.
None; it is a textual closing statement (adhi-yāya colophon).