SB 4.28.11
TEXT 11
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TEXT
भयनाम्नो ऽग्रजो भ्राता प्रज्वारः प्रत्युपस्थितः ।
ददाह तां पुरीं कृत्स्नां भ्रातुः प्रियचिकीर्षया ॥ ११ ॥ bhaya-namno 'grajo bhrata
prajvaraḥ pratyupasthitaḥ
dadaha tam purim krtsnam
bhratuḥ priya-cikirsaya
bhaya-namnaḥ-of Bhaya (fearfulness); agra-jaḥ-elder; bhrata-brother; prajvaraḥ-named Prajvara; pratyupasthitaḥ-being present there; dadaha-set fire; tam-to that; purim-city; krtsnam-wholesale; bhratuḥ-his brother; priya-cikirsaya-in order to please.
TRANSLATION
Under the circumstances the elder brother of Yavana-raja, known as Prajvara, set fire to the city to please his younger brother, whose other name is fear itself.
PURPORT
According to the Vedic system, a dead body is set on fire, but before death there is another fire or fever, which is called prajvara, or visnu-jvara. Medical science verifies that when one's temperature is raised to 107 degrees, a man immediately dies. This prajvara, or high fever, at the last stage of life places the living entity in the midst of a blazing fire.
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