जतुगृह

यन्त्रोपारोपितकोशांशः

Monier-Williams

पृष्ठभागोऽयं यन्त्रेण केनचित् काले काले मार्जयित्वा यथास्रोतः परिवर्तयिष्यते। तेन मा भूदत्र शोधनसम्भ्रमः। सज्जनैः मूलमेव शोध्यताम्।

जतुगृह/ जतु--गृह n. a house plastered with lac and other combustible substances (such a house was built for the reception of the पाण्डवprinces in वारणावतby पुरोचन, at the instigation of दुर्योधन, the object being to burn them alive when they were asleep after a festival Page410,1 ; warned by विदुर, they discovered the dangerous character of their abode , and dug an underground passage ; next having invited an outcaste woman with her five sons , they first stupefied them with wine , and then having burnt पुरोचनin his own house , set fire to the house of lac , and , leaving the charred bodies of the woman and her sons inside , escaped by the underground passage) MBh. i , 313 ; 2250 and 5864

जतुगृह/ जतु--गृह n. ( v , 1987 , -गेह)

जतुगृह/ जतु--गृह n. (hence) a place of torture DivyA7v. xxvii ( जन्तु-ग्)