Markandeyapurana 48.41

48.41

indriyārtheṣu bhūteṣu śarīreṣu ca sa prabhuḥ /
nānātvaṃ viniyogañca dhātaiva vyadadhāt svayam //

Whatever actions they were severally endowed with originally at their creation, those very actions they are endowed with when they are created again and again. Noxiousness and harmlessness, gentleness and cruelty, righteousness and unrighteousness, truth and falsehood,—animated thereby they have their being; therefore they severally take delight in those characteristics. The lord, the creator, himself ordained diversity and specialization[27] among created things in their organs and pursuits and bodies. And he assigned the names and shapes of created things, and propounded the duties of the gods and other beings, even by the words of the Veda at the beginning. He gives names to the Ṛṣis, and to the several created classes[28] among the gods, and to the other things that were brought forth at the close of the nighty As the signs of the seasons appear at their appropriate season,[29] and various forms appear amid alteration, so those very signs and forms appear as actual facts[30] in the ages and other periods.