Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 241
इति श्रीस्कांदे महापुराण एकाशीतिसाहस्र्यां संहितायां षष्ठे नागरखण्डे हाटकेश्वर क्षेत्रमाहात्म्ये शेषशाय्युपाख्यान ब्रह्मनारदसंवादे चातुर्मास्यमाहात्म्ये तपोऽधिकारे सच्छूद्रकथनंनामैकचत्वारिंशदुत्तरद्विशततमोऽध्यायः
iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ ṣaṣṭhe nāgarakhaṇḍe hāṭakeśvara kṣetramāhātmye śeṣaśāyyupākhyāna brahmanāradasaṃvāde cāturmāsyamāhātmye tapo'dhikāre sacchūdrakathanaṃnāmaikacatvāriṃśaduttaradviśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ
Demikian berakhir, dalam Śrī Skanda Mahāpurāṇa—pada Ekāśītisāhasrī Saṃhitā, di Nāgara-khaṇḍa yang keenam—dalam Māhātmya Wilayah Suci Hāṭakeśvara, pada kisah Śeṣaśāyī, dalam dialog Brahmā–Nārada, dalam Cāturmāsya Māhātmya, pada bagian tapa: bab ke-241 yang bernama “Uraian tentang Śūdra yang Saleh.”
Colophon (editorial/narrative closure)
Tirtha: Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Listener: Audience of the Purāṇa (implicit)
Scene: A manuscript colophon scene: palm-leaf or paper folios with red rubrication; a scribe marks the end of the chapter while a small vignette shows Brahmā and Nārada in dialogue.
FAQs
This is a colophon; its function is to authenticate and locate the teaching within the Purāṇic hierarchy rather than teach a new doctrine.
Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra is explicitly named as the sacred geography frame for the surrounding māhātmya.
No direct prescription; it indexes the surrounding topic as Cāturmāsya-māhātmya within the austerity section.