Matsya Purana 153.115

153.115

sa mamarda surānīkaṃ dantaiścāpyahanat surān.
babhañja pṛṣṭhataḥ kāṃścit kareṇāveṣṭya dānavaḥ .. 153.112

The Dânava who had taken the form of a Mâya mountain, vanished, then, he masqueraded as an elephant which also appeared huge like a mountain He started killing the army of the Devas some with his tusks, some with his trunk He powdered the back of some and killed others by dashing them by his trunk Indra, seeing the destruction of his army, applied his Nṛisiṅgha astra out of which came out several hundreds and thousands of roaring lions of black colour and of ferocious teeth and with long sawlike nails—112 115