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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.28.11

భయనామ్నోఽగ్రజో భ్రాతా ప్రజ్వార: ప్రత్యుపస్థిత: । దదాహ తాం పురీం కృత్‍స్‍నాం భ్రాతు: ప్రియచికీర్షయా ॥ ౧౧ ॥
bhaya-nāmno ’grajo bhrātā
[bhaya-naamno ’grajo bhraataa]
prajvāraḥ pratyupasthitaḥ
[prajvaarah pratyupasthitah]
dadāha tāṁ purīṁ kṛtsnāṁ
[dadaaha taam pureem kritsnaam]
bhrātuḥ priya-cikīrṣayā
[bhraatuh priya-chikeershayaa]
Word-for-word
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.
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
bhaya-nāmno ’grajo bhrātā
bhaya-nāmnaḥ
of Bhaya (Fear)
agra-jaḥ
elder
bhrātā
brother
prajvāraḥ pratyupasthitaḥ
prajvāraḥ
named Prajvāra
pratyupasthitaḥ
being present there
dadāha tāṁ purīṁ kṛtsnāṁ
dadāha
set fire
tām
to that
purīm
city
kṛtsnām
wholesale
bhrātuḥ priya-cikīrṣayā
bhrātuḥ
his brother
priya-cikīrṣayā
in order to please.
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.

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
Gauḍīya Ācāryas
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya
Translation
Fear’s elder brother Prajvāra arrived and burned the city completely, desiring to please his brother. Pravāraḥ is Viṣṇuvjāra.
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