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Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.28.11
SYNONYMS
bhaya-nāmnah — of Bhaya (Fear); agra-jah — elder; bhrātā — brother; prajvārah — named Prajvāra; pratyupasthitah — being present there; dadāha — set fire; tām — to that; purīm — city; kritsnām — wholesale; bhrātuh — his brother; priya-cikīrshayā — 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 vishnu-jvāra. Medical science verifies that when one's temperature is raised to 107 degrees, a man immediately dies. This prajvāra, or higher fever, at the last stage of life places the living entity in the midst of a blazing fire.
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