140.1   Duryodhana orders Jatugriha to be built in Varanavratha

The wicked Duryodhana became very pleased when the king had said so unto Pandavas. And Duryodhana, then, summoning his counsellor, Purochana in private, took hold of his right hand and said, 'O Purochana, this world, so full of wealth, is mine. But it is thine equally with me. It behoveth you, therefore, to protect it. I have no more trustworthy counsellor than you with whom to consult. Therefore, O sire, keep my counsel and exterminate my foes by a clever device. O, do as I bid you. The Pandavas have, by Dhritarashtra, been sent to Varanavata, where they will, at Dhritarashtra's command, enjoy themselves during the festivities. Do that by which you may this very day reach Varanavata in a car drawn by swift mules. Going there, you cause to be erected a quadrangular palace in the neighbourhood of the arsenal, rich in the materials and furniture, and guard the mansion well (with prying eyes). And use you in erecting that house hemp and resin and all other inflammable materials that are procurable. And mixing a little earth with clarified butter and oil and fat and a large quantity of lac, you make a plaster for lining thewalls, and scatter all around that house hemp and oil and clarified butter and lac and wood in such a way that the Pandavas, or any others, may not, even with scrutiny behold them there or conclude the house to be an inflammable one. And having erected such mansion, you cause the Pandavas, after worshipping them with great reverence, to dwell in it with Kunti and all their friends. And place there seats and conveyances and beds, all of the best workmanship, for the Pandavas, so that Dhritarashtra may have no reason to complain. you must also so manage it all that none of Varanavata may know anything till the end we have in view is accomplished. And assuring youself that the Pandavas are sleeping within in confidence and without fear, you must then set fire to that mansion beginning at the outer door. The Pandavas thereupon must be burnt to death, but the people will say that they have been burnt in an accidental conflagration of their house."Saying, 'So be it' unto the Kuru prince, Purochana went to Varanavata in a car drawn by fleet mules. And going there without loss of time, obedient to the instructions of Duryodhana, did everything that the prince had bid him do."