Skandapurana 16.282

Īśvara said: / Then Śaryāti, residing at the place of Valabhī, having heard— / having heard that Cyavana was restored to youth, his mind filled with joy—

overjoyed, set out with his army for the hermitage of the descendant of Bhṛgu, / [to see] Cyavana and Sukanyā, who was delighted like a daughter of the gods.

The king Śaryāti went, an ocean of complete bliss; / honoured by that seer, the lord of the earth along with his wife / sat there and engaged in auspicious conversations, being noble-minded.

Then, O goddess, the Bhārgava addressed him consolingly: / 'O king, I will officiate at a sacrifice for you; prepare the sacrificial provisions.'

Then the lord of the earth, Śaryāti, was exceedingly delighted, / O great goddess, and revered those words of Cyavana.

On an auspicious day suitable for sacrifice, fulfilling all desires, / Śaryāti caused an excellent sacrificial pavilion to be erected.

Right there, O goddess, Cyavana, the Bhārgava, officiated as priest; / and there occurred wonders, O great goddess, which were [remarkable].

Cyavana then took the soma draught for the two gods, the Aśvins; / Indra prevented him: 'Do not take a cup for those two!' / Indra said: / 'These two are not worthy of soma, the two Nāsatyas—such is my view. / For they are the physicians of the gods, despised on account of that occupation.'

Cyavana said: / 'Do not disrespect these two great-souled ones, endowed with beauty, wealth, and radiance, / who today have made me ageless like a god!

Why indeed do you not look upon them as equal to the other gods? / Know the Aśvins also to be gods, O lord of gods, O scorcher of foes!'

Indra said: / 'As healers, menial workers, shapeshifters, / wandering about in the world of mortals, how do they deserve soma here?'

Īśvara said: / When Vāsava repeated that very same statement, / the Bhārgava disregarded Śakra and took up the cup.

Seeing that the best of beings was about to take soma for the two Aśvins, / the god Balabhid then uttered this speech:

'If you yourself take soma for the sake of these two, / I will strike you with my fierce, peerless thunderbolt!'

Thus addressed, looking straight at Indra, the Bhārgava / took up according to rule the excellent cup of soma for the two Aśvins.

Then Indra, the husband of Śacī, hurled his thunderbolt at him in anger; / as he was striking, the Bhārgava paralysed his arm.

Having paralysed [it], Cyavana then made an offering into the fire with mantras; / seeking an act of destruction, having exceedingly great splendour, he prepared to strike down the god.

There arose in that sacrifice, from that sage's power of austerity, a destructive spirit / named Mada, of great prowess, of gigantic body, a great asura,

whose body gods and asuras were unable even to measure; / there existed no equal to the size of his physical form here.

His mouth was dreadful, fearsome to behold with large fangs; / one of his jaws rested on the earth, and one reached to heaven.

His four fangs each measured a hundred yojanas, / while his other teeth were ten yojanas [long],

resembling city ramparts in shape, uniform from root to tip, / resembling mountains by description, ten thousand yojanas [in extent].

His eyes were like the sun and moon; his brows resembled the God of Death; / he licked his mouth with a flickering tongue moving like lightning; / with gaping jaws and a dreadful gaze, he was as if forcibly devouring the world.

Intent on devouring [him], enraged, he rushed at Śatakratu, / covering the worlds with a sound, with a great, dreadful roar.

Thus ends the two hundred and eighty-second chapter, titled 'The Description of the Account of the Creation of the Great Asura Named Mada through a Destructive Rite to Slay Śakra Who Was Preparing to Hurl His Thunderbolt Obstructing the Sacrificial Portion of the Nāsatyas by Cyavana,' in the Cyavaneśvara-māhātmya, in the First Prabhāsa-kṣetra-māhātmya, in the Seventh Prabhāsa-khaṇḍa, in the glorious Skandapurāṇa, a compendium of eighty-one thousand [verses].