Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 191
इति श्रीस्कान्दे महापुराण एकाशीतिसाहस्र्यां संहितायां षष्ठे नागर खण्डे हाटकेश्वरक्षेत्रमाहात्म्ये सावित्र्या यज्ञागमनकालिकोत्पाताद्यपशकुनोद्भववर्णनंनामैकनवत्युत्तरशततमोऽध्यायः
iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ ṣaṣṭhe nāgara khaṇḍe hāṭakeśvarakṣetramāhātmye sāvitryā yajñāgamanakālikotpātādyapaśakunodbhavavarṇanaṃnāmaikanavatyuttaraśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ
かくして『聖スカンダ・マハープラーナ』—八万一千頌のサンヒターにおける第六ナガラ・カンダ、ハータケーシュヴァラ聖域のマーハートミヤ—「サーヴィトリーが祭祀に来臨する時に生じた凶兆と前兆の叙述」と題する章、すなわち第191章はここに終わる。
Colophon (textual closure formula)
Tirtha: Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Listener: Śaunaka and the Naimiṣāraṇya sages (standard frame; not named in this colophon)
Scene: A manuscript-like colophon scene: sages and reciters conclude a chapter; in the background, a yajña arena under a sky hinting at ominous signs, foreshadowing the next episode.
FAQs
As a colophon, it seals the teaching-theme: how dharmic events unfold amid signs and omens, within a sanctified kṣetra’s sacred narrative.
Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra is explicitly named as the focus of the māhātmya.
None; this is a formal chapter-ending identification of text, location-context, and topic.