བྲེ་བོ་

བྲེ་བོ། (Wyl. bre bo ) Pron.: drewo

• Skt. द्रोणः, droṇa, Pron.: drona. From Sanskrit: fr. 4. | a wooden vessel, bucket, trough ; a Soma vessel | •Zd.: draona | a measure of capacity (= 4 Āḍhakas = 16 Pushkalas = 128 Kuñcis = 1024 Mushṭis, or = 200 Palas = 1/20 Kumbha, or = 1/16 Khārī= 4 Āḍhakas, or = 2 Āḍhakas = 1/2 Śūrpa= 64 Śeras, or = 32 Śeras) | a measure for measuring fields (as much land as is sown with a Dro4ṇa of corn) | an altar shaped like a trough | a lake or large piece of water of 400 poles length | a kind of cloud (from which the rain streams forth as from a bucket) | and | below | a raven or crow | a scorpion | a kind of plant (prob. Leucas Linifolia) | N. of one of the 8 Vasus (husband of Abhimati and father of Harsha, Śoka, Bhaya) | 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 | of one of the 4 sons of Mandapāla and Jaritā (born as birds) | as author of | with the | of a Brāhman | of •sev. other men | of •sev. mountains [Mahavyutpatti] [Sanskrit] MVP MW