### SB 4.28.11

> भयनाम्नोऽग्रजो भ्राता प्रज्वारः प्रत्युपस्थितः ।\
> ददाह तां पुरीं कृत्स्नां भ्रातुः प्रियचिकीर्षया ॥११॥

> bhaya-nāmno 'grajo bhrātā\
> prajvāraḥ pratyupasthitaḥ\
> dadāha tāṁ purīṁ kṛtsnāṁ\
> bhrātuḥ priya-cikīrṣayā

*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.

**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.**

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.