Markandeyapurana 83.21

83.21

evaṃ saṃkṣīyamāṇe tu svasainye mahiṣāsuraḥ /
māhiṣeṇa svarūpeṇa trāsayāmāsa tān gaṇān //

Now, as his army was being thus destroyed utterly, the Asura Mahiṣa in his own buffalo-shape terrified her troops. Some he laid low by a blow from his muzzle, and others by stamping with his hooves, and others because they were lashed with his tail and gashed with his horns, and others again by his impetuous rush, his bellowing and his wheeling career, and others by the blast of his breath— thus he laid them low on the face of the earth. Having laid low the van of her army, the Asura rushed to attack the great goddess’ lion. Thereat Ambikā displayed her wrath. And he, great in valour, pounding the surface of the earth with his hooves in his rage, tossed the mountains aloft[3] with his horns and bellowed. Crushed by his impetuous wheelings the earth crumbled to pieces; and the sea lashed by his tail overflowed in every direction; and the clouds pierced by his swaying horns were rent to fragments; mountains fell in hundreds from the sky, being cast down by the blast of his breath.