gayatri
गायत्री gayatriA Vedic metre of twenty-four syllables, in three lines of eight; also the name of the most famous verse composed in it, the Gayatri mantra to Savitr.
Where this term appears
- The Gayatri Mantra Worship
Devata , Savitr. Chandas , gayatri.
- Eighty-five titles and no text: the Saura tantras and how a tradition disappears Lineages
Its own story is told in the Gayatri, and the wider family of solar deities it belongs to in the Vedic gods.
- Surya Namaskar: The Sun Salutation Yoga
…oured from cupped hands toward the sun at its rising, and recites the Gayatri, the great verse of the Rigveda addressed to Savitr, the solar power that impels all things to life and thought.
- The Mahamrityunjaya Mantra Worship
And what it actually asks for is stranger, and gentler, and far more interesting than "do not let me die." Where it comes from Like the Gayatri, the Mahamrityunjaya is not a late devotional composition.
- The Vedic Gods: Indra, Agni, and the world of the Rigveda Essentials
The Gayatri mantra, among the most sacred verses a Hindu can recite, is a Rigvedic verse addressed to the light of the sun.
- What Does Om Mean? Deities
It opens the recitation of scripture and the rites of puja. It begins and closes the great mantras, the Gayatri among them.
- What is a Mantra? Worship
The chanted Om and the sun, the same sun the Gayatri addresses, fold into each other.
- Keeping the Sound Treatise
The gayatri has twenty-four syllables, three padas of eight, and it is the most sacred of the set; close to a quarter of the Rigveda is composed in it.