Skanda Purana 7.20.256

7.20.256

hālāhalayuddhākhyānam, balasya netṛtve hālāhalākhyasya dānavagaṇasya devaiḥ saha saṃgrāmaḥ, prathamatosurāṇāṃ vijayaḥ, paścānmahādevānugrahāddevānāṃ vijayaḥ, indreṇa balasya hananam . asurāṇāṃ parājayaḥ, andhakārayuddham . devāntakasya tapaścaryā, rudraprasādāttāmasīṃ māyāmāśritya devāntakena devānāṃ prabādhanam . ṛṣīṇāṃ vacanād devairasurāṇāṃ mohāyāpsarasāṃ preṣaṇam, apsarorūpamohitānāṃ dānavānāṃ parasparayuddhena svataḥ saṃhāraḥ, avaśiṣṭānāṃ devaiḥ saṃharaṇam .

The account of the battle with the Hālāhala [demons]; the battle of the host of Dānavas named Hālāhala, under the leadership of Bala, with the gods; at first, the victory of the asuras; afterwards, through the grace of Mahādeva, the victory of the gods; the slaying of Bala by Indra. The defeat of the asuras; the battle in darkness. Devāntaka's practice of austerities; Devāntaka's afflicting the gods by resorting to darkness-born illusory power through the grace of Rudra. At the word of the seers, the sending of apsarases by the gods to bewilder the asuras; the destruction of the Dānavas by their own hand in mutual combat, infatuated by the beauty of the apsarases; the slaughter of the remainder by the gods.