Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (Bhāgavata Purāṇa) / Canto 12: The Age of Deterioration / CHAPTER EIGHT / This chapter describes how Mārkaṇḍeya Ṛṣi performed austerities, defeated by his potency Cupid and all his associates, and offered prayers to Lord Śrī Hari in His forms of Nara and Nārāyaṇa.