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.]