When awoken to assist in the fight against Tarakasura, he incinerated the parrot-riding god who came to wake him.
When this god was the only one among a large party of deities to wake up before sunrise, he angrily turned all his companions to stone, as depicted on reliefs at Unakoti. When a priest correctly predicted this god would win a dice game, his wife got pissed and cursed the priest with leprosy; the priest then fasted for 16 Mondays and was cured. When this god took the form of an infinite pillar of light, another god lied and claimed he had found to end to the pillar, so this god cursed him to rarely be worshipped. This god protected the earth by holding a (*) river in his hair until it was released. When awoken to assist in the fight against Tarakasura, he incinerated the parrot-riding god who came to wake him. The father of this god's first wife invited everybody except him to a sacrifice, so she immolated herself in a fire in protest, thus giving the name of sati to the practice. For 10 points, Kama was destroyed by the third eye of what member of the trimurti?
When this god was the only one among a large party of deities to wake up before sunrise, he angrily turned all his companions to stone, as depicted on reliefs at Unakoti.
Shiva