Matsyapurana 53.25

53.25

yatrādhikṛtya śakunīn dharmādharmavicāraṇā
vyākhyātā vai munipraśne munibhirdharmacāribhiḥ //

(7) *The Mârkaṇḍeya Purâṇa.*—The Purâṇa which begins with the story of the birds solving the difficulty of Dharma and Adharma, and which the pious sages explain in an answer to the question of the sage (Jaimini), which has been described at great length by the sage Mârkaṇḍeya, at the request of the Ṛiṣis, and which contains 9,000 couplets, is known as Mârkaṇḍeya Purâṇa.—25-26.