Jvara
Jvara, “fever”
Jvara is fever in embodied form. Bhagavān Śrī Kṛshṇa tells Yudhishṭhira of him in the Uttara Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa, in the account of King Ajapāla.
Rāvaṇa asked his pratihāra Prasasti who had come to serve him, and heard that King Ajapāla had not come. He sent the rākshasa Dhūmrāksha to Ajapāla with the message to come and serve him or be killed by the sword. Ajapāla sent Dhūmrāksha back with reproof. Then the king summoned Jvara and said: “Go to Laṅkeśvara Rāvaṇa and do there what is fitting.”
Jvara in embodied form, sent by Ajapāla, went there and made the lord of the rākshasas shake as he sat with all his retinue. Rāvaṇa, knowing that most terrible Jvara had come, said: “Let King Ajapāla stay where he is; I have no need of him.”
Source: Bhavishya Purāṇa, Uttara Parva, Chapter 71
Sources
- Bhavishya Purāṇa, Uttara Parva, Chapter 71