जतुगृह — {gṛha} 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) i, 313 ; 2250 and 5864##(v, 1987, {-geha})##(hence) a place of torture xxvii ({jantu-g})##{-parvan} n. N. of i, ch. 141-151