Bhagavatapurana 10.77.27

10.77.27

evaṃ nirbhartsya māyāvī khaḍgenānakadundubheḥ /
utkṛtya śira ādāya kha-sthaṃ saubhaṃ samāviśat //

27. Having thus threatened, the deceitful Salva (D. Then Salva sprang at and) cut off the head of that Vasudeva and with the head he returned to the Saubha that was up in the sky. 28. Thereupon He was for a while overwhelmed (as it were) with the human nature for the sake of His relations, though He is by nature one of perfect light. Then Krishna of immense power understood all that to be the asura-illusion tried by Salva under the instruction of Maya.