Matsya Purana 178.13

178.13

ayaṃ sa kila yuddheṣu surārthe tyaktajīvitaḥ.
savitustejasā tulyaṃ cakraṃ kṣipati śatruṣu .. 178.13 ..

“He is my enemy He is the Destroyer of my elders, He lived in the oceans, destroyed the demons Madhu and Kaiṭabha It can be said that as long as He lives, the war between us will not end There will be a most fearful fight between Him and me He has killed many demons in this battle He is very cruel He has not shown His clemency even to the children and the women of the demons killed He is shameless He is Viṣṇu He is the heaven of the Devas He sleeps on the Śeṣa serpent. He is the Prime Soul He is the Lord of Brahmâ and the Devas and our Tormentor Hiraṇyakaśyapu was the victim of His fury The Devas under His guardianship enjoy the sacrificial oblations and the offerings of clarified butter poured into the fire by the Ṛiṣis He is the Destroyer of all the enemies of the Devas Our race is annihilated by His quoit For the benefit of the Devas He has no regard for His own life and throws His quoit shining like the Sun in midst of the demons He is Bhagavân Keśava—the Destroyer of the demons He is Bhagavân Viṣṇu—our Destiny He has now come to fight Now this Viṣṇu subdued by me will make His salutations to me In this battle I shall kill Viṣṇu—the terror of the demons—and will then kill all the rest of the Devas Thus I will free myself from the debt of my ancestors This Viṣṇu in all forms causes anguish to the demons I have heard that this very same Viṣṇu bears enmity to the demons even after he gèts other births, and he has killed the demons Madhu and Kaiṭabha, when a lotus sprouted from His navel, and when there was only one vast expanse of water all over the universe I have also heard of His having torn Hiraṇyakaśyapu my father in the form of Narasiṁha (half man and half lion) He had measured the three realms by His three strides; when Aditi held Him auspiciously in Her womb Now the Târakâmaya war has commenced and He will be destroyed by fighting with me” Having uttered such words, he got ready to encounter Viṣṇu—6 22