Matsya Purana 167.21

167.21

vyaktamanyatamo bhāvas teṣāṃ saṃbhāvito mama
na hīdṛśaṃ jagatkleśam ayuktaṃ satyamarhati //

He said to himself “What wonders have I seen! surely this universe would not be so much fraught with troubles” With such thoughts the sage saw that there was no Sun, Moon, wind, mountain nor earth What world was that? While he was thinking thus he saw a man sleeping, and floating like a mountain as if a cloud, half submerged on that water He was brilliant like the Sun and even in that night He was luminous by His own splendour as if He was awake No sooner the Muni Mârkandeya came to know who He was, then he immediately went again into His belly—21 25