íḍā, f. or (in Ṛg-veda) íḻā, (not to be confounded with the inst. case of iḍ above), refreshing draught, refreshment, animation, recreation, comfort, vital spirit, [RV.]; [AV.]; [AitBr.] offering, libation (especially a holy libation, offered between the Pra-yāga and Anu-yāga, 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.]; (metaphorically, cf. id), stream or flow of praise and worship (personified as the goddess of sacred speech and action, invoked together with Aditi and other deities, but especially in the Āprī hymns together with Sarasvatī and Mahī or Bhāratī), [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.] &c. ; the earth, food, [Sāy.] a cow the goddess or iḻā (daughter of Manu or of man thinking on and worshipping the gods; she is the wife of Budha and mother of Purū-ravas; in another aspect she is called Maitrāvaruṇi as daughter of Mitra-Varuṇa, two gods who were objects of the highest and most spiritual devotion) N. of Durgā of a daughter of Dakṣa and wife of Kaśyapa of a wife of Vasudeva and of the Rudra Ṛta-dhvaja 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.]