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ज्वरोत्पत्ति (jvarotpatti)

 
Mahabharata
English
[Jvarotpatti(ḥ)] (“the origin of fever”). § 694b (Mokshadh.): Bhīshma said: In days of yore there was a summit of Meru, named Jyotishka, belonging to Savitṛ (Sāvitraṃ). There Śiva used to sit with Pārvatī, waited upon by D., V., etc. (). After some time the Prajāpati Daksha commenced to perform a sacrifice, whither all the gods headed by Indra, with the permission of Śiva, repaired mounted on their chariots, proceeding to that spot whence the Gaṅgā is said to issue. Pārvatī asked why Śiva did not himself proceed thither, and was told that in days of yore the deities made an arrangement in consequence of which no share was assigned to Śiva of offerings in sacrifices. He was filled with grief. Śiva ordered Nandin to wait there, and summoning all his yoga force, he, with all his terrible followers, came and destroyed that sacrifice (description)
it assumed the form of a deer and tried to fly away through the skies, pursued by Śiva with bow and arrow. A drop of sweat fell from his forehead down on the earth
there appeared a terrible fire, whence issued a dreadful being of very short stature, etc. (description), who consumed the embodied form of sacrifice and then attacked D. and Ṛ., who fled in all directions. The earth began to tremble, etc. Brahmán appeased Śiva by promising him a share of the sacrificial offerings
the being that had sprung from his sweat should be distributed among all creatures as fever (description of the distribution). Blessing upon the reader (XII, 284).