Ila : in the Veda, goddess of revelation, “the strong primal Word of Truth who gives us its active vision” [SABCL 11:32]; one of the five powers of the Truth-Consciousness. In the Puranas, Ilā is the daughter of Manu Vaivaswata who instituted a sacrifice to Mitra & Varuna to obtain a son, but the officiating priest mismanaged the performance & the result was the birth of a daughter, Ilā. Through the favour of the two deities, however, her sex was changed & she became a man, Sudyumna. Under the malediction of Shiva, Sudyumna was again turned into a woman &, as Ilā, married Chandra-deva (god of the planet Būdha) & gave birth to Pururavas. Later, Lord Vishnu changed her back into Sudyumna who fathered three sons.
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