Matsya Purana 25.32

25.32

hatvā śālāvṛkebhyaśca prāyacchaṃstilaśaḥ kṛtam.
tato gāvo nivṛttāstā agopāḥ khaniveśanam.. 25.31 ..

In that way Kacha went on for a period of five hundred years. The Asuras, knowing the piety of Kacha and out of their spite for Bṛihaspati, took him to a secluded place in the forest where he was grazing the cows, and slaughtered him for the sake of their own protection. After that they divided his corpse into many parts and then got it devoured by wolves and jackals. Then the cows bereft of their keeper returned to their abode.—30-32.