Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c32.s3.5

c32.s3.5

It is derived from either *Jatu ghara* (the Maha-Bharata ‘Jatugriha,’ ‘the house of lac,’ made to entrap and burn the Pandavas) as has been suggested, or preferrably from *Jama-ghara* ‘House of Death.’ *Jauhar* is spelt as *Jama-hara* in the ‘Kanhada de Prabandha’ (a work in Old Râjasthânî), p. 94 (pointed out to me by Dr. Suniti K. Chatterji).