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Gayatri
Personification of the Gayatri Mantra / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For Gayatri metre, see Vedic metre.
For other uses, see Gayatri (disambiguation).
Gayatri (Sanskrit: गायत्री, IAST: Gāyatrī) is the personified form of the Gayatri Mantra, a popular hymn from Vedic texts.[5] 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 Savitṛ, a solar deity in the Vedas, and her consort in the Puranas is the creator god Brahma.[6][7][8] Gayatri is also an epithet for the various goddesses and she is also identified as "Supreme pure consciousness".[9]
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Gayatri | |
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Member of Pancha Prakriti[2] | |
![]() 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. | |
Other names | Savitri, Vedamata |
Devanagari | गायत्री |
Sanskrit transliteration | gāyatrī |
Affiliation | Devi, Saraswati, Mahadevi, Parvati, Durga, Lakshmi |
Abode | Satyaloka, Manidvipa |
Mantra | Gayatri Mantra |
Symbol | Vedas |
Mount | Hamsa |
Festivals | Gayatri Jayanti, Saraswati Puja |
Consort | Brahma; Sadashiva (according to Shaivism)[3][4] |
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