Markandeyapurana 58.81

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tatra strātvā prakurvota dānahomādikaṃ vidhim /
sa eṣa vaiṣṇavaḥ pādo brahmā madhye grahasya yaḥ /
nārāyaṇākhyo 'cintyātmā kāraṇaṃ jagataḥ prabhuḥ //

There, having bathed, one should perform the rites of charity, fire-offering, and the like. / This foot belonging to Viṣṇu is Brahmā who is in the center of the planet[ary arrangement], / named Nārāyaṇa, of inconceivable nature, the Lord, the cause of the universe.

This very foot of Viṣṇu, which is in the midst of the planets, is Brahmā.

The countries are placed in the Tortoise, and the constellations in these countries, O brāhman, and the signs of the zodiac in the constellations, the planets in the signs of the zodiac.[312] Therefore one should indicate calamity to a country when its particular planets and constellations are occulted. In that event one should bathe and give alms and perform the homa oblation and the rest of the ritual.

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iti śrīmārkaṇḍeyapurāṇe kūrmaniveśo nāmāṣṭapañcāśo 'dhyāyaḥ

Thus ends the fifty-eighth chapter in the glorious Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa, named “The Arrangement of the Tortoise.”

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ūnaṣaṣṭitamo 'dhyāyaḥ- 59

Fifty-ninth chapter - 59