Markandeyapurana 89.29

89.29

tato bhagavatī kruddhā durgā durgārtināśinī /
ciccheda tāni cakrāṇi svaśaraiḥ sāyakāṃśca tān //

Thereupon Niśumbha, regaining consciousness, seized his bow again and struck the goddess, and Kālī and the lion with arrows. And the Dānava lord, that son of Diti, putting forth a myriad arms, again covered Caṇḍikā with a myriad discuses.[4] The goddess then enraged, she, Durgā who destroys the afflictions of adversity, split those discuses and those arrows with her own arrows. Then Niśumbha seizing his club rushed impetuously at Caṇḍikā to slay her outright, with the Daitya host surrounding him. As he was just falling upon her, Caṇḍikā swiftly clove his club with her sharp-edged scymitar. And he took hold of a dart. Caṇḍikā with a dart hurled swiftly pierced Niśumbha, the afflicter of the Immortals, in the heart, as he approached with dart in hand. When he was pierced by the dart, out of his heart issued another man of great strength and great valour, exclaiming “Stand!” When he stepped forth, the goddess laughing aloud then struck off his head with her scymitar; thereupon he fell to the ground.