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जतुगृह (jatugRha)

 
Capeller Eng
English
जतुगृह
n.
the lac-house (in the Mahabharata).
Spoken Sanskrit
English
जतुगृह jatugRha
n.
place of torture
जतुगृह jatugRha
n.
house plastered with lac and other combustible substances
Monier Williams Cologne
English
जतु—गृह
n.
a house plastered with lac and other combustible substances (such a house was built for the reception of the Pāṇḍava princes in Vāraṇāvata by Purocana, at the instigation of Duryodhana, the object being to burn them alive when they were asleep after a festival
warned by Vidura, 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 Purocana in 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 & 5864
(v, 1987, -गेह)
(hence) a place of torture,
Divyāv.
xxvii (जन्तु-ग्°)
Shabdartha Kaustubha
Kannada
जतुगृह
पदविभागः - > नपुंसकलिङ्गः
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Capeller
German
जतुगृह u.
°गह
n.
das Lackhaus (im Mahābhārata).