Mudgalapurana 6.33: kāmāsuraputravadho nāma trayastriṃśattamo'dhyāyaḥ

Homage to the glorious Gaṇeśa.

The Primordial Śakti said:
Seeing that great and boundless army arrive, / resplendent with various weapons, the lords of the gods went to Gaṇapa.

The lords of the gods said:
"The mighty Kāmāsura himself has come in person, / before whom the lords of the gods appeared like mere mosquitoes.

The strength of his weapons, O Lord, has always been unfailing; / none is his equal in strength. This very Kāma has arrived.

Protect us who are terrified of Kāma! Otherwise, the powerful Kāma / will capture the divine seers alive, O Gaṇeśa!"

Hearing their words, Gajānana said to them: / "Do not be afraid, O wise ones! I will slay the great asura.

By my grace, all of you leaders of the gods / will become capable, there is no doubt. Fight with the Dānavas!"

Hearing the words of Vikaṭa, the gods were filled with joy; / armed with weapons and freed from fear, they roared, O Śaktis!

By the sound of their roaring, the whole expanse of the quarters was filled; / all the Daityas who had arrived became terrified.

Then, seized with fury, the lords of the Daityas headed by Bali / roared on all sides with lion-roars and the blasts of conches.

Then all the hosts of Daityas, with weapons in hand, discharged / a terrible shower of weapons, like clouds upon a mountain.

Then the gods, warding them off with their own weapons, fought vigorously; / the gods and the fierce Daityas fought with one another.

There was no awareness of friend or foe when the sun was covered by the dust; / they struck one another, O goddesses, with weapons and missiles that pierced vital spots.

Then, from the vast floods of blood, a river difficult to cross was formed; / its flow swollen with blood, the dust was indeed settled.

Thus, continuously day and night for one day, / a dreadful battle took place between the Daityas and the gods who desired victory.

Then the gods became victorious; they struck the chief Daityas / with blows of their weapons, and the Daitya leaders fled.

Seeing that great wonder, the Daitya lords became enraged; / Bali and the other leaders, endowed with great prowess, came to the battlefield.

By them, with the force of their weapons and missiles, the entire army of the gods was struck down; / the immortals, terrified with fear, fled in the ten directions.

Then Indra arrived and in anger struck Bali; / with his thunderbolt he struck down the mighty lord of the Dānavas.

Then the gods, filled with joy, roared aloud; / and Kumbhakarṇa struck Mahendra in the chest with his fist.

Indra fell to the ground; then mighty Viṣṇu, / enraged, the discerning one, hurled his discus on the battlefield.

With the razor-edged discus, the Daityas were slain on all sides; / Rāvaṇa, filled with rage, went toward him with a desire to fight.

Struck there with the mace by Viṣṇu, he fell into a faint; / likewise Viṣṇu rendered Kumbhakarṇa unconscious.

Then Durmadaka, Mahiṣa, and Śaṅkara / approached Mahāviṣṇu, filled with anger from all sides.

Then seeing Keśava utterly distressed, Śaṅkara himself, / taking up his trident with speed, and the Sun also arrived.

There Durmada was severely tormented by the Sun with a mace; / he fell down unconscious, vomiting much blood from his mouth.

There the asura leader Śaṅkara was struck with the trident by Śaṅkara / and fell unconscious upon the surface of the earth.

There Mahiṣa was rendered unconscious with the discus by Viṣṇu; / then the Daityas and Dānavas raised a cry of lamentation and fled.

Seeing the army of the gods endowed with victory, the great sage / Śukra made an effort to revive those Daitya chiefs.

In the meantime, Mahākālī arrived there; / taking hold of Kāvya, the goddess went and hurled him into a cave.

Then the powerful Daitya Kāmāsura, filled with sorrow / and sighing, came to fight; his two sons said to him:

"Stay, father! The two of us will go, wage battle, / and kill the great enemy without a doubt; what will the lord of obstacles do?"

Having spoken thus, the two mighty sons of the Daitya went to the battlefield; / filled with anger, they spoke to Śaṅkara and Viṣṇu.

Śoṣaṇa said: / "Halt, halt, Mahādeva! After killing the Daitya hordes previously, / I will now kill you; behold my supreme prowess!

You are Śiva, equal to a jackal; go to the forest, you will die / along with the beasts! Speak, what will you do before me?"

Śrī Śaṅkara said: / "Śoṣaṇa, you are capable, and now I will kill [you], no doubt; / endowed with the splendor of Vikaṭa, show your prowess, villain!"

Hearing this, the mighty-armed one hurled arrows of unfailing form; / by them, all the hordes of gods fell unconscious in the battle.

Śaṅkara fought swiftly with that mighty warrior; / he too, filled with anger, pierced him again with arrows.

Then by the blow of the trident, Śoṣaṇa fell down; / recovering consciousness after a moment, he seized Śambhu in anger.

Having whirled him around, he hurled him onto the summit of a great mountain; / then the joyful Daityas cheered him, shouting: "Victory!"

Duṣpūra, approaching Viṣṇu, spoke to that lord of the gods; / filled with anger, the mighty-armed one was exceedingly proud of his strength.

Duṣpūra said: / "Why are you intoxicated with pride, Viṣṇu? Do you not know me, evil-minded one? / You have killed my mighty warriors, the chiefs of the Daityas.

Receive from me the fruit of [helping] those who follow the gods; / you, their helper, slain indeed, shall go to the abode of Yama!"

Hearing those words of his, Keśava, filled with anger, / spoke to that mighty, utterly arrogant son of the Daitya.

Śrī Viṣṇu said: / "What are you saying to me, most wicked one? I will kill you, without a doubt, / by the power of Vikaṭa; do not be proud, Daitya-born!"

Then seized with rage, Duṣpūra indeed struck Viṣṇu / with his mace; [struck] by it, [Viṣṇu] fell to the ground in great distress.

Then the gods led by Devendra, unperturbed, / struck at Duṣpūra with showers of weapons; he too discharged arrows.

With hundreds [of arrows] he struck the Sun, the best of the luminous beings; / he brought down Indra, Yama, Vāyu, and Brahmā with hundreds [of arrows].

Then Viṣṇu, remaining watchful, struck Duṣpūra; / with his discus, he rendered the Daitya ruler unconscious at the vanguard of battle.

Recovering consciousness again, he afflicted Viṣṇu with arrows; / rendering him unconscious with thousands [of them], he roared, gladdening his own [kin].

Thus by the Daitya Duṣpūra and by Śoṣaṇa, the powers / performed an equal deed in battle through the influence of victory.

Meanwhile, the two sons of the Daitya king, praised by the Daitya lords / headed by Bali who were alert, shone brightly there.

Then the powerful Daitya lords set their minds to kill the hordes of gods; / thereupon the elephant-faced one became enraged.

Gajānana swiftly cast his noose as well as his goad; / the noose reached Śoṣaṇa's neck and remained fixed [there].

With his breath choked by the noose, Śoṣaṇa fell in battle; / flailing his hands and feet, he died at that very moment.

The goad, arriving swiftly, then struck Duṣpūra / in the belly; he died right before the eyes of the Daityas and Rākṣasas.

Then the noose and goad roamed across the battlefield, / having slain many Daityas who were bewildered with cries of distress.

Agitated with fear and casting aside shame, the powers / headed by Bali, deprived of weapons, fled in the ten directions, as did others.

Then the noose and goad returned to the hands of Vighneśvara; / seeing this, the immortals stood up again.

Free from disease and endowed with strength, they then praised Vikaṭa; / likewise, the Daityas, overcome with grief, wept in all directions.

Om Tat Sat. Thus, in the glorious, final purāṇic Upaniṣad, in the glorious and venerable Maudgala Mahāpurāṇa, in the sixth section, in the exploits of Vikaṭa, ends the thirty-third chapter, entitled "The Slaying of the Sons of Kāmāsura."