Markandeyapurana 85.74

85.74

dūta uvāca
avaliptāsi maivaṃ tvaṃ devi brūhi mamāgrataḥ /
trailokye kaḥ pumāṃstiṣṭhedagre śumbhaniśumbhayoḥ //

The messenger spoke:
Proud art thou! Talk not so before me, O goddess! What male in the three worlds may stand front to front with Śumbha and Niśumbha? All the gods verily stand not face to face with even the other Daityas in battle, O goddess; how much less canst thou so stand, a woman singlehanded! With Śumbha and those other Daityas, against whom īndra and all the other gods stood not in battle, how shalt thou, a woman, venture face to face? Do thou, being such, to whom I have in sooth delivered my message, go near unto Śumbha and Niśumbha; let it not be that thou shalt go with thy dignity shattered in that thou wilt be dragged thither by thy hair!