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
अशा प्रकारे श्रीस्कंदमहापुराणाच्या एकाशी-सहस्री संहितेतील सप्तम प्रभासखण्डात, प्रथम ‘प्रभासक्षेत्रमाहात्म्य’ अंतर्गत, सरस्वती-समुद्र संगमस्थ ‘श्राद्धकल्प’ मध्ये ‘श्राद्धविधिवर्णन’ नामक दोनशे सहावा अध्याय समाप्त झाला।
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.