| Gayatri | |
|---|---|
| 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 | Saraswati, Savitri, Vedamata |
| Devanagari | गायत्री |
| Sanskrit transliteration | gāyatrī |
| Affiliation | Devi, Saraswati, Parvati, Lakshmi, Mahadevi |
| 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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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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- ^ Ludo Rocher (1988). "The Purāṇas (A History of Indian Literature". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. 51 (2): 355.
- ^ "गायत्री". Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary.
- ^ Dalal, Roshen (2010). Hinduism An Alphabetical Guide. Penguin India. p. 146. ISBN 978-0-14-341421-6.
- ^ Bradley, R. Hertel; Cynthia, Ann Humes (1993). Living Banaras: Hindu Religion in Cultural Context. SUNY Press. p. 286. ISBN 9780791413319. Archived from the original on 2020-10-12. Retrieved 2019-08-20.
- ^ Constance Jones, James D. Ryan (2005), Encyclopedia of Hinduism, Infobase Publishing, p.167, entry "Gayatri Mantra"
- ^ Roshen Dalal (2010), The Religions of India: A Concise Guide to Nine Major Faiths, Penguin Books India, p.328, entry "Savitr, god"
- ^ "WIL Cologne Scan".
- ^ Das, Keshav (1990). Gāyatrī, the Highest Meditation. Motilal Banarsidas. p. 51. ISBN 9788120806979.