Matsya Purana 140.38
Matsyapurāṇa 140.38
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140.38
nandinā sādite daitye vidyunmālau hate mayaḥ.
dadāha pramathānīkaṃ vanamagnirivoddhataḥ.. 38 ..
On Vidyunmālī being killed by Nandikeśvara, Maya consumed the army of Śiva by his strategem as the fire consumes the forest They fell into the ocean with their limbs dismembered by the trident, their heads pounded with the clubs and perforated with the showers of arrows Afterwards Indra Dharmarâja Kuvera Nandikeśvara, and Svâmikartika attacked Maya, the great warrior, with various kinds of weapons Maya roared like the clouds and quickly shot arrows after arrows and pierced Airāvata—Indra's elephant—and also Kuvera and Yama—38 41
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- The Matsya Puranam — A Taluqdar of Oudh 1916, English