Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.1995

c9.1995

(xiv) Burnt Himavān. Śiva once did tapas on the top of Himavān when Pārvatī came behind him and covered his eyes with her hands. At once darkness enveloped the whole world, and when people suffered in the absence of day-light Śiva opened his third eye. Himavān began getting burnt by the fire emitted by Śiva's eye. Pārvatī got alarmed at this and woke Śiva up. He closed his third eye and Himavān resumed its former shape. (Anuśāsana Parva, Chapter 104).