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)
जतु n. [जन्-ड तो$न्तादेशः Uṇ.1.18] 1 Lac; Pt.1.17. -2 A kind of red dye. -तुः, -तूः f. A bat. -Comp. -अश्मकम् red arsenic. -गृहम् a house made of lac (such as was built by Duryodhana in order to burn up the Pāṇḍavas). -पुत्रकः a man at chess. -मणिः a mole, a natural mark on the body. -रसः lac.
noun (neuter) jātū (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
Asa foetida (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
gum (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
lac (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
noun (masculine neuter) bitumen (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
black bitumen (Somadeva (1999), 156)
mineral pitch (Somadeva (1999), 156)
red chalk (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
Steinharz Frequency rank 2550/72933
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