Skandapurana 16.34.27

16.34.27

atha kāle gate devi śuṣyatyaṃbu śanaiḥśanaiḥ ..
viditvā kṣīyamāṇāstā apo jalanidhistataḥ .. 27 ..

Then, as time passed, O goddess, the water slowly dried up; / perceiving that those waters were being depleted, the ocean thereupon