Matsyapurana 139.9

139.9

niśamya tanmayasyaivaṃ dānavāstripurālayāḥ
muhuḥ siṃharutaṃ kṛtvā mayamūcuryamopamāḥ //

The Dânavas, residents of Tripura, hearing such words of Maya roared and said: “We shall all do as you direct us and shall resort to that stratagem that would not give a chance to Śiva to discharge his deadly arrow. Now we shall go to kill Śiva.”—9-11 They all became elated with joy, their hairs over their bodies stood on their end with their ecstacy, and they said:—