House of lacquer in the Mahabharata
Lakshagriha (Sanskrit: लाक्षागृहम्, romanized: Lākṣāgṛham),[1] also called the House of Lacquer, is a palace made of lacquer featured in the Hindu epic Mahabharata.[2] It is the setting of an assassination plot in the epic, devised by the prince Duryodhana to murder his cousins, the Pandavas, by planning to immolate them while they slept within the palace.
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