Pravadaraja (प्रवादराज, IAST: Pravādarāja) is a Sanskrit-origin Hindu boy-name meaning “King of all sacred proclamations”. Compounded from pravāda (utterance, declaration) and rāja (king), this name exalts Vishnu as the supreme sovereign of all truthful, authoritative speech.

Meaning, etymology & significance

Pravādarāja joins pravāda — meaning a declaration, a proclaimed teaching, or a celebrated utterance — with rāja, the royal one. Together they crown Vishnu as the unrivaled master of sacred speech and doctrinal proclamation, for every true word spoken in any tradition ultimately flows from His divine intelligence. This epithet complements the preceding Vāda by adding the dimension of royal supremacy over all forms of discourse.

This name appears in the Vishnu Sahasranama to honor the Lord as the highest authority in theological deliberation; it is pronounced pra-VAA-da-RAA-ja and, while spiritually rich, functions best in a devotional rather than everyday personal-name context.

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Scriptural source

Pravadaraja appears in the Vishnu Sahasranama, among the sacred names of Vishnu.