In Puranas and Vaishnava theology, "māyā" is described as one of the nine shaktis of Vishnu. "Māyā" became associated with sleep; and Vishnu's "māyā" is sleep which envelopes the world when he awakes to destroy evil. Vishnu, like Indra, is the master of "māyā"; and "māyā" envelopes Vishnu's body. The "Bhagavata Purana" narrates that the sage Markandeya requests Vishnu to experience his "māyā". Vishnu appears as an infant floating on a fig leaf in a deluge and then swallows the sage, the sole survivor of the cosmic flood. The sage sees various worlds of the universe, gods etc. and his own hermitage in the infant's belly. Then the infant breathes out the sage, who tries to embrace the infant, but everything disappears and the sage realizes that he was in his hermitage the whole time and was given a flavor of Vishnu's "māyā". The magic creative power, "Māyā" was always a monopoly of the central Solar God; and was also associated with the early solar prototype of Vishnu in the early Aditya phase.