SB 4.28.11
Devanāgarī
भयनाम्नोऽग्रजो भ्राता प्रज्वार: प्रत्युपस्थित: । ददाह तां पुरीं कृत्स्नां भ्रातु: प्रियचिकीर्षया ॥ ११ ॥
Text
bhaya-nāmno ’grajo bhrātā prajvāraḥ pratyupasthitaḥ dadāha tāṁ purīṁ kṛtsnāṁ bhrātuḥ priya-cikīrṣayā
Synonyms
bhaya-nāmnaḥ—of Bhaya (Fear);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.