“Vidyā king,” a class of mantras and mantra deities; an epithet of Vajrapāṇi; an epithet of any powerful vidyā or mantra.

“Vidyā king,” a class of mantras and mantra deities.

See “king of vidyās.”

This epithet can refer to individual mantras (vidyā) as well as deities‍—typically those attending upon Vajrapāṇi; most of the time the mantra and the deity are one and the same, but, in some contexts, the focus may be on either one or the other. If the focus is on the mantra or its corresponding deity, the term has been translated as king of vidyās, and if it is on the class of deities and is used in the plural, it has been translated as vidyārāja. Vidyārāja can also be a deity name.

See “vidyārāja.”