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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: The Purana Index

Prajvāra (प्रज्वार).—The brother of Bhaya, Lord of the Yavanas; consumed the city of Purañjana to flames; allegorically the two forms of fever.^*

• * Bhāgavata-purāṇa IV. 27. 30; 28. 11; 29. 23.

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The Purana (पुराण, purāṇas) refers to Sanskrit literature preserving ancient India’s vast cultural history, including historical legends, religious ceremonies, various arts and sciences. The eighteen mahapuranas total over 400,000 shlokas (metrical couplets) and date to at least several centuries BCE.

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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Prajvāra (प्रज्वार).—Fever; heat of fever; प्रज्वारोऽयं मम भ्राता त्वं च मे भगिनी भव (prajvāro'yaṃ mama bhrātā tvaṃ ca me bhaginī bhava) Bhāgavata 4.27.3.

Derivable forms: prajvāraḥ (प्रज्वारः).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Prajvara (प्रज्वर).—m., according to Tibetan on Mahāvyutpatti 9530 a virulent contagious disease (rims drag po); also Bhikṣuṇī-karmavācanā 20b.2, in a list of diseases. Doubtless a fever.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Prajvāra (प्रज्वार).—i. e. pra-jvar + a, m. The heat of the fever, [Bhāgavata-Purāṇa, (ed. Burnouf.)] 4, 27, 30.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Prajvāra (प्रज्वार):—[=pra-jvāra] m. (√jvar) the heat of fever (sometimes personified), [Bhāgavata-purāṇa]

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Prajvara in German

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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Partial matches: Pra, Jvara.

Full-text: Jvar, Bhaya, Raya, Puranjana.

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Puranic encyclopaedia (by Vettam Mani)

Story of Purañjana

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The Bhagavata Purana (by G. V. Tagare)

Chapter 28 - Purañjana’s Rebirth as a Woman and Attainment of Liberation < [Book 4 - Fourth Skandha]

Chapter 27 - Invasion of Caṇḍavega—The Episode of Kālakanyā < [Book 4 - Fourth Skandha]

Chapter 29 - The Purañjana allegory explained < [Book 4 - Fourth Skandha]

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