भयनाम्नो ऽग्रजो भ्राता प्रज्वारः प्रत्युपस्थितः ददाह तां पुरीं कृत्स्नां भ्रातुः प्रियचिकीर्षया
bhaya-nāmno 'grajo bhrātā prajvāraḥ pratyupasthitaḥ dadāha tāṁ purīṁ kṛtsnāṁ bhrātuḥ priya-cikīrṣayā
Synonyms
bhaya-nāmnaḥ—of Bhaya (fearfulness); agra-jaḥ—elder; bhrātā—brother; prajvāraḥ—named Prajvāra; pratyupasthitaḥ—being present there; dadāha—set fire; tām—to that; purīm—city; kṛtsnām—wholesale; bhrātuḥ—his brother; priya-cikīrṣayā—in order to please..
Translation
Under the circumstances the elder brother of Yavana-rāja, known as Prajvāra, 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 prajvāra, or viṣṇu-jvāra. Medical science verifies that when one's temperature is raised to 107 degrees, a man immediately dies. This prajvāra, or high fever, at the last stage of life places the living entity in the midst of a blazing fire.