इडा f. f. or (in
ऋग्-
वेद)
इ॑Lआ, (not to be confounded with the inst. case of
इड् above), refreshing draught, refreshment, animation, recreation, comfort, vital spirit,
[RV.] ;
[AV.] ;
[AitBr.] offering, libation (especially a holy libation, offered between the
प्र-याग and
अनु-याग, and consisting of four preparations of milk, poured into a vessel containing water, and then partially drunk by the priest and sacrificers; personified in the cow, the symbol of feeding, and nourishment),
[ŚBr. i, 8, 1, 1, &c.] ;
[AitBr.] ;
KātyŚr.;
[Kauś.] इद् (metaphorically
cf. ), stream or flow of praise and worship (personified as the goddess of sacred speech and action, invoked together with
अदिति and other deities, but especially in the
आप्री hymns together with
सरस्वती and
मही or
भारती),
[RV.] ;
[AV.] ;
[VS.] &c.
the earth, food,
[Sāy.] a cow
इडा the goddess or
इLआ (daughter of
मनु or of man thinking on and worshipping the gods; she is the wife of
बुध and mother of
पुरू-रवस्; in another aspect she is called
मैत्रावरुणि as daughter of
मित्र-
वरुण, two gods who were objects of the highest and most spiritual devotion)
N. of
दुर्गाof a daughter of
दक्ष and wife of
कश्यपof a wife of
वसुदेव and of the
रुद्रऋत-ध्वजspeech,
[BhP.] heaven,
[L.] earth,
[MBh.] a particular artery on the left side of the body
a tubular vessel (one of the principal channels of the vital spirit, that which is on the right side of the body),
[L.]