According to Bhāgavatapurāṇa (Bhagavatapurana), Ilā (Ila), one of the wives of Kaśyapa (Kasyapa), was a daughter of Dakṣa (Daksha). She was the mother of of all trees, plants and creepers. Here Pṛthivī (Prithivi; the mother Earth) — mother of all the vegetative world, has been imagined in the form of Ilā.