Markandeyapurana 16.68

The son spoke:
Having heard that her speech, the lady saluted Atri’s wife Anasūyā respectfully in return, and replied thus to her—“Happy am I, favoured am I, and regarded by the gods am I, since thou, O lady blessed by nature, again increasest my faith. I know this—none among women has a condition equal with her husband, and love for him tends to her benefit in this world and the next; through her husband’s favour both here and after death, O illustrious lady, a woman gains happiness; for a husband is a woman’s deity. Do thou, being such a woman, O exalted lady, tell me who have reached thy temple, what I, a noble[7] woman, must do, or what my noble husband must do, O beauteous one!”

Anasūyā spoke:
“Indra and these gods in distress have approached me; they are searching for the day and night, the virtuous acts prescribed for which have been discarded in consequence of thy speech. They beg for the natural uninterrupted continuance of day and night: I am come for that object, and do thou listen to this my speech. Through the absence of day there is the absence of all sacrificial ceremonies; through the absence of these the gods do not get their nourishment, O ascetic lady. Through the destruction of day also all work is cut short; from the destruction thereof the world will perish through drought. Therefore if thou desirest to deliver this world from calamity, be gracious, O virtuous lady, to the worlds; let the sun run his course as before.”