Markandeyapurana 81.76

81.76

āvāṃ jahi na yatrorvo salilena pariplutā /
prītau svastava yuddhena ślāghyastvaṃ mṛtyurāvayoḥ //

The ṛṣi spoke:
Gazing then at the entire world which was nothing but water, those two, who had been thus tricked, spoke to the adorable lotus-eyed god,—“Slay us where the earth is not overwhelmed with water.”[23]