Markandeya Purana 83.35

83.35

nanarda cāsuraḥ so 'pi balavīryamadoddhataḥ /
viṣāṇābyāñca cikṣepa caṇḍikāṃ prati bhūdharān //

Caṇḍikā looked on the great Asura, as swollen with rage he rushed on, and gave a way to her wrath then in order to slay him. She flung her noose full over him, and bound the great Asura fast. And he quitted his buffalo shape when held hound in the great battle, and then became a lion suddenly. While Ambikā is cutting off his head he took the appearance of a man with scymitar in hand. Straightway the goddess with her arrows swiftly pierced the man together with his scymitar and shield. Then he became a huge elephant, and tugged at her great lion with his trunk and roared, but the goddess cut off his trunk with her sword as he made his tugs. Next the great Asura assumed his buffalo shape again, and so shook the three worlds with all that is moveable and immoveable therein. Enraged thereat Caṇḍikā, the mother of the world, quaffed a sublime beverage again and again,[4] and laughed as her eyes gleamed ruddy. And the Asura roared out, puffed up with his strength and valour and frenzy, and hurled mountains against Caṇḍikā with his horns. And she, shivering to atoms with showers of arrows those mountains that he hurled, spoke to him in confused words, while her mouth was rendered ruddier by the mead that she had drunk.