ददाह तां पुरीं कृत्स्नां भ्रातुः प्रियचिकीर्षया ॥११॥
bhaya-nÄmno 'grajo bhrÄtÄ
prajvÄraḥ pratyupasthitaḥ
dadÄha tÄá¹ purÄ«á¹ ká¹›tsnÄá¹
bhrÄtuḥ priya-cikÄ«rá¹£ayÄ
bhaya-nÄmnaḥ - of Bhaya (Fear); agra-jaḥ - elder; bhrÄtÄ - brother; prajvÄraḥ - named PrajvÄra; pratyupasthitaḥ - being present there; dadÄha - set fire; tÄm - to that; purÄ«m - city; ká¹›tsnÄm - wholesale; bhrÄtuḥ - his brother; priya-cikÄ«rá¹£ayÄ - in order to please.
Under the circumstances, the elder brother of Yavana-rÄja, known as PrajvÄra, set fire to the city to please his younger brother, whose other name is fear itself.
According to the Vedic system, a dead body is set on fire, but before death there is another fire, or fever, which is called prajvÄra, or viṣṇu-jvÄra. Medical science verifies that when one’s temperature is raised to 107 degrees, a man immediately dies. This prajvÄra, or high fever, at the last stage of life places the living entity in the midst of a blazing fire.
