When Shiva was not invited to Daksha's yajna, his wife, Sati, was swept by sorrow.

The creature was dwarfish, with penetrating eyes, donning a green moustache, with hair standing erect on his head and body, looking like hybrid of a hawk and an owl, jet-black in hue, and was dressed in a blood-coloured cloth.

[3][4] Thus, Jvarasura is depicted as having three faces, three feet, and remarkable ability to move in all directions at once.

Shitala, the consort of Jvarasura is widely worshipped by village folk in whole of North India, as a protector of pox and fever diseases.

In some images, these deities are shown as flying away, to escape from wrath of Vajrayogini, the Buddhist goddess and destroyer of diseases.