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Word (IAST)	Word (Devanagari)	Overview
droṇa	द्रोण	dróṇa n. (fr. 4. dru) a wooden vessel, bucket, trough &c.; a Soma vessel [cf. Zd. draona], [RV.]; [MBh.] &c. (ifc. f(A). , [Hcat.])
		dróṇa m. n. a measure of capacity (= 4 Āḍhakas = 16 Puṣkalas = 128 Kuñcis = 1024 Muṣṭis, or = 200 Palas = 1/20 Kumbha, or = 1/16 Khārī = 4 Āḍhakas, or = 2 Āḍhakas = 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 D° of corn), [Col.]
		dróṇa n. an altar shaped like a trough, [Śulbas. iii, 216]
		dróṇa 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)
		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 Harṣa, Śoka, Bhaya &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 Kṛpī 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], [143], [144], with the patr. Śārṅga)
		of a Brāhman, [Pañc.]
		of sev. other men, [VP.]
		of sev. mountains, [ib.]
droṇaghā	द्रोणघा	droṇa—ghā f. (and corrupted from ?) dughlā, [L.]
droṇaka	द्रोणक	m. pl. ‘the inhabitants of a valley’, N. of a people, [VP.]
droṇacit	द्रोणचित्	droṇa—cít mfn. arranged in a trough form, [ŚBr.]; [Śulbas.]
droṇasāc	द्रोणसाच्	droṇa—sā́c mfn. clinging to the trough, united with it (Soma), [RV. x, 44, 3.]
droṇaciti	द्रोणचिति	droṇa—cíti f. arrangement in trough form, [MaitrS.]
droṇadughā	द्रोणदुघा	droṇa—dugdhā or droṇa—dughā, f. = -kṣīrā, [L.]
droṇakāka	द्रोणकाक	droṇa—kāka or droṇa—kākala, m. a raven, [L.] (cf. above).
droṇamānā	द्रोणमाना	droṇa—mānā f. = -kṣīrā, [L.]
droṇamaya	द्रोणमय	droṇa—maya mf(I)n. made of the D° measure, [Hcat.]
		consisting only of D°, [MBh.]
droṇamegha	द्रोणमेघ	droṇa—megha m. a kind of cloud (see above), [Mṛcch. x, 25.]
droṇamukha	द्रोणमुख	droṇa—mukha n. the chief of 400 villages, [Divyāv.] (°khya, [ib.])
		the end of a valley (v.l. °ṇī-m°).
droṇapadī	द्रोणपदी	droṇa—padī f. ‘trough-footed’, [L.]
droṇaripu	द्रोणरिपु	droṇa—ripu m. ‘D°'sfoe’, N. of Dhṛṣṭa-dyumna, [Gal.]
droṇadugdhā	द्रोणदुग्धा	droṇa—dugdhā or droṇa—dughā, f. = -kṣīrā, [L.]
droṇakṣīrā	द्रोणक्षीरा	droṇa—kṣīrā f. (a cow) yielding a Dr° of milk, [L.]
droṇampaca	द्रोणम्पच	droṇa—m-paca mfn. ‘cooking a D°’, liberal in entertaining, [L.]
droṇaparṇī	द्रोणपर्णी	droṇa—parṇī f. ‘trough-leaved’, Musa Sapientum, [L.]
droṇapuṣpī	द्रोणपुष्पी	droṇa—puṣpī f. Phlomis Zeylanica or other plant, [Bhpr.]
droṇapuṣpa	द्रोणपुष्प	droṇa—puṣpa n. flower of Leucas Linifolia, [L.] (cf. above).
droṇasiṃha	द्रोणसिंह	droṇa—siṃha m. N. of a prince of the Vallabhī dynasty, [Inscr.]
droṇastūpa	द्रोणस्तूप	droṇa—stūpa m. N. of a Stūpa (said to contain a D° holding relics of Gautama Buddha), [Buddh.]
droṇavṛṣṭi	द्रोणवृष्टि	droṇa—vṛṣṭi f. rain streaming forth as from a trough, [Mṛcch. x, 37] (cf. droṇa and -megha).
droṇakākala	द्रोणकाकल	droṇa—kāka or droṇa—kākala, m. a raven, [L.] (cf. above).
droṇakalaśa	द्रोणकलश	droṇa—kalaśá m. a large wooden vessel for the Soma, [VS.]; [TS.]; [Br.] &c.
droṇaparvan	द्रोणपर्वन्	droṇa—parvan n., ‘D° section’, N. of [MBh. vii.]
droṇagandhikā	द्रोणगन्धिका	droṇa—gandhikā f. a kind of plant (= rāsnā), [L.]
droṇaśarmapada	द्रोणशर्मपद	droṇa—śarma-pada n. N. of a Tīrtha, [MBh.]

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