vidyā́ f. knowledge (cf. kāla-jāta-v°), science, learning, scholarship, philosophy, [RV.] &c. &c. (according to some there are four Vidyās or sciences, 1. trayī, the triple Veda; 2. ānvīkṣikī, logic and metaphysics; 3. daṇḍa-nīti, the science of government; 4. vārttā, practical arts, such as agriculture, commerce, medicine &c.; and, [Manu. vii, 43] adds a fifth, viz. ātma-vidyā, knowledge of soul or of spiritual truth; according to others, Vidyā has fourteen divisions, viz. the four Vedas, the six Vedāṅgas, the Purāṇas, the Mīmāṃsā. Nyāya, and Dharma or law ; or with the four Upa-vedas, eighteen divisions; others reckon 33 and even 64 sciences [= kalās or arts]; Knowledge is also personified and identified with Durgā; she is even said to have composed prayers and magical formulas)
any knowledge whether true or false (with Pāśupatas), [Sarvad.]
a spell, incantation, [MBh.]; [Ragh.]; [Kathās.]
magical skill, [MW.]
a kind of magical pill (which placed in the mouth is supposed to give the power of ascending to heaven), [W.]
Premna Spinosa, [L.]
a mystical N. of the letter i, [Up.]
a small bell, [L.] (cf. vidyāmaṇi).