जतु—गृह n. n. a house plastered with lac and other combustible substances (such a house was built for the reception of the
पाण्डव princes in
वारणावत by
पुरोचन, at the instigation of
दुर्योधन, the object being to burn them alive when they were asleep after a festival
; 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
पुरोचन 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 and 5864] -गेह (
v, 1987, )
जन्तु-ग्° (hence) a place of torture,
[Divyâv. xxvii] ()