savitr
सवितृ SavitṛThe Sun considered as the impeller, the one who sets things in motion; the deity addressed by the Gayatri (RV 3.62.10).
Where this term appears
- The Gayatri Mantra Worship
The hymn around it is composite, six triplets stitched together, each to a different god; verse 10 opens the Savitr triplet inside a hymn that is not, taken whole, a hymn to Savitr at all.
- Eighty-five titles and no text: the Saura tantras and how a tradition disappears Lineages
…ma, the Shakyas for the Buddha, the naked ones for the Jinas, and for Savitr the Sun, the Magas.
- Surya Namaskar: The Sun Salutation Yoga
… and recites the Gayatri, the great verse of the Rigveda addressed to Savitr, the solar power that impels all things to life and thought.
- What is a Mantra? Worship
It is addressed to Savitr, the Sun considered as the impeller, the one who sets things in motion.
- The Gayatri Treatise
Its deity is Savitr , a solar god whose name comes from a root meaning to impel, to set in motion, to bring forth; he is the sun as the power that stirs the world awake and drives it on, more than the sun as me…