dróṇa n. (fr. 4. dru) a wooden vessel, bucket, trough &c. ; a Soma vessel [Zd. draona] RV. MBh. &c. (ifc. f. ā Hcat.)
• m. n. a measure of capacity (= 4 Āḍhakas= 16 Pushkalas = 128 Kuñcis = 1024 Mushṭis, or = 200 Palas = 3/20 Kumbha, or = 1/16 Kharī= 4 Aḍhakas, or = 2 Aḍhakas= 1/2 Śūrpa= 64 Śeras, or = 32 Śeras) Mn. Yājñ. MBh. Suśr. &c
• a measure for measuring fields (as much land as is sown with a Dróṇa of corn) Col.
• n. an altar shaped like a trough Śulbas. iii, 216
• m. a lake or large piece of water of 400 poles length L.
• a kind of cloud (from which the rain streams forth as from a bucket) L. (cf. -megha and -vṛṣṭi below) [Page 503, Column 1]
• a raven or crow L. (cf. -kāka)
• a scorpion (cf. druṇa)
• a kind of plant (prob. Leucas Linifolia) L.
• N. of one of the 8 Vasus (husband of Abhimati and father of Harsha, Śoka, Bhsya &c.) BhP.
• of a Brāhman said to have been generated by Bharad-vāja in a bucket (the military preceptor of both the Kuru and Paṇḍu princes
• afterwards king of a part of Pañcāla and general of the Kurus, the husband of Kṛipī and father of Aśvatthāman) MBh. Hariv. Pur. &c
• of one of the 4 sons of Mandapāla and Jaritā (born as birds) MBh. i, 8345' &c. (as author of RV. x, 142, 3, 4, with the patr. Sārṅga)
• of a Brāhman Pañc.
• of sev. other men VP.
• of sev. mountains ib.
• (ā), f. a kind of shrub L.
• N. of a daughter of Śiṃha-hanu Buddh.
• (ī), f. a wooden trough or tub MBh. Hariv. R. &c
• any vessel or implement'made of wood' L.
• a measure of capacity (= 2 Sūrpas = 128 Śeras) L.
• a valley, Malatim. ix, 0/1 Pur.
• a kind of creeper Bhpr.
• of coloquintida (= indra-círbitī) L.
• of salt L.
• N. of a country, of a mountain and of a river L.
 

Sanskrit-English Dictionary, by M. Monier William