Matsyapurana 7.4

7.4

tadā ditir daityamātā ṛṣirūpeṇa suvratā
phalāhārā tapas tepe kṛcchraṃ cāndrāyaṇādikam //

After a little more than a century, Diti, the mother of demons, who had practised hard penances like a Ṛiṣi and had become emaciated and aged owing to her living on phalâhâra and regularly keeping up Chândrâyaṇa and other fasts, asked Vasiṣṭha and other sages.—4-5.