Gāyatrī
Sign in to saveGayatri (Sanskrit: गायत्री, IAST: Gāyatrī) is the personified form of the Gayatri Mantra, a popular hymn from Vedic texts. She is also known as Savitri, and holds the title of Vedamata ('mother of the Vedas'). Gayatri is the manifestation of Saraswati and is often associated with Savitṛi, a solar deity in the Vedas, and her consort in the Puranas is the creator god Brahma. Gayatri is also an epithet for the various goddesses and she is also identified as "Supreme pure consciousness".
Key facts
- Deity.name
- Gayatri
- Deity.type
- Hindu
- Deity.image
- Gayatri1.jpg
- Deity.caption
- Illustration by Raja Ravi Verma. In illustrations, the goddess often sits on a lotus flower and appears with five heads and five pairs of hands, within the Tamil form of the sacred symbol "Om".
- Deity.Devanagari
- गायत्री
- Deity.god_of
- Mother of the Vedas Personification of the Gayatri Mantra
- Deity.affiliation
- Devi, Saraswati, Mahadevi
- Deity.abode
- Satyaloka
- Deity.symbol
- Vedas
- Deity.consort
- Brahma
- Deity.mantra
- Gayatri Mantra
- Deity.festivals
- Gayatri Jayanti, Saraswati Puja
- Deity.mount
- Hamsa
- Deity.member_of
- Pancha Prakriti
- Deity.other_names
- Saraswati, Savitri, Vedamata
via Wikipedia infobox
~10 min read
Encyclopedic overview
16 sectionsContents
- Origin
- Iconography
- Associations
- 24 Letters of Gayatri mantra
- 24 [[Rishis]] of Gayatri
- 24 [[Vedic meter|Meters]] of Gayatri
- 24 Vedic [[Devatas]] of Gayatri
- 24 Śaktis of Gayatri
- 24 [[Tattva (Shaivism)|Tattvas]] of Gayatri
- The Mudras of Gayatri
- Legends
- Shaivism
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
Gayatri (Sanskrit: गायत्री, IAST: Gāyatrī) is the personified form of the Gayatri Mantra, a popular hymn from Vedic texts. She is also known as Savitri, and holds the title of Vedamata ('mother of the Vedas'). Gayatri is the manifestation of Saraswati and is often associated with Savitṛi, a solar deity in the Vedas, and her consort in the Puranas is the creator god Brahma. Gayatri is also an epithet for the various goddesses and she is also identified as "Supreme pure consciousness".
== Origin == Gayatri was the name initially applied to a metre of the Rig Veda consisting of 24 syllables. In particular, it refers to the Gayatri Mantra and the Goddess Gāyatrī as that mantra personified. The Gayatri mantra composed in this triplet form is the most famous. Most of the scholars identify Gayatri as the feminine form of Gayatra, another name of the Vedic Solar god which is also one of the synonyms of Savitri and Savitṛi.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gāyatrī” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.