Text 11
Text 11
Devanagari
Devanagari
ददाह तां पुरीं कृत्स्नां भ्रातु: प्रियचिकीर्षया ॥ ११ ॥
Text
Texto
prajvāraḥ pratyupasthitaḥ
dadāha tāṁ purīṁ kṛtsnāṁ
bhrātuḥ priya-cikīrṣayā
prajvāraḥ pratyupasthitaḥ
dadāha tāṁ purīṁ kṛtsnāṁ
bhrātuḥ priya-cikīrṣayā
Synonyms
Palabra por palabra
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
Traducción
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.
En esas circunstancias, el hermano mayor de Yavana-rāja, Prajvāra, prendió fuego a la ciudad para complacer a su hermano menor, cuyo nombre es Temor.
Purport
Significado
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.
El sistema védico establece que los cadáveres deben quemarse, pero antes de la muerte hay otro fuego, la fiebre, que se denomina prajvāra, o viṣṇu-jvāra. La ciencia médica certifica que cuando a una persona le sube la fiebre por encima de los 42 grados, muere inmediatamente. Ese prajvāra, la fiebre alta, pone en un fuego ardiente a la entidad viviente que se encuentra en la última etapa de la vida.