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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 दुर्गा
of a daughter of दक्ष and wife of कश्यप
of a wife of वसुदेव and of the रुद्रऋत-ध्वज
speech, [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.]
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