Markandeyapurana 56.2

56.2

sā praviśya sudhāyoniṃ somamādhāramambhasām /
tataḥ sambadhyamānārkaraśmisaṅgatipāvanī //

Mārkaṇḍeya spoke:
The foot of Nārāyaṇa, moreover, who is the origin of the universe,[1] supports the earth. The divine river Ganges which issued thence flows in three courses. She enters the moon, which is the womb of the nectar and the receptacle of the waters, and thence, having purified with her contact the rays of the sun[2] which is indissolubly connected with the moon, she fell on the summit of Meru, and then divided into four streams. As she fell from the summit and the sides and the outer bounds of Meru, she turned around, and finding no support fell scattering her waters widely. Dividing her waters equally at the foot of Mandara and the three other mountains, she fell, piling high the rocks broken off from their bases by her waters.