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duced her. Manu lived with her, and praying and fasting to
obtain otfspring, he begat upon her the race of Manu. In
the Purawas she is daughter of the Manu Vaivaswata, wife of
Budha (Mercury), and mother of Pururavas. The Manu Vaivas-
wata, before he had sons, instituted a sacrifice to Mitra and
Varuna for the purpose of obtaining one; but the officiating
priest mismanaged the performance, and the result was the birth
of a daughter, Ida or Ila. Through the favour of the two
deities her sex was changed, and she became a man, Su-dyumna.
Under the malediction of $iva, Su-dyumna was again turned into
a woman, and, as Ila, married Budha or Mercury. After she had
given birth to Pururavas, she, under the favour of Vislmu, once
more became Su-dyumna, and was the father of three sons.
According to another version of the legend, the Manu's eldest
son was named Ila. He having trespassed on a grove sacred
to Parvati, was changed into a female, Ila. Upon the supplications
and prayers of Ila's friends, $iva and his consort conceded
that the offender should be a male one month and a female
another. There are other variations in the story which is apparently
ancient.
IDAVIZ)A. Daughter of Trmabindu and the Apsaras Alam-
busha. There are different statements in the Puranas as regards
her. She is represented to be the wife of Visravas and mother
of Kuvera, or the wife of Pulastya and mother of Visravas.
IKSHWAKTI. Son of the Manu Vaivaswat, who was son
of Vivaswat, the sun.
" He was born from the nostril of the
Manu as he happened to sneeze." Ikshwaku was founder of the
Solar race of kings, and reigned in Ayodhya at the beginning of
the second Yuga or age. He had a hundred sons, of whom the
eldest was Vikukshi Another son, named Nimi, founded the
Mithila dynasty. According to Max Mailer the name is men-
tioned once, and only once, in the .ffig-veda. Respecting this
he adds: " I take it, not as the name of a king, but as the name
of a people, probably the people who inhabited Bhajeratha, the
country washed by the northern Ganga or place the Ikshwakus in the north-west
Bhaglrathi" Others
ILA, ILA. See Ida,
ILlVILA. See Idavida.
ILVALA.
INDBA.
flkYatapi.
The god of the firmament, the personified atmo-