vyahriti
व्याहृति vyahrtiThe three sacred 'utterances' bhur, bhuvah, svah (earth, mid-air, heaven), prefixed with Om to the Gayatri mantra.
Where this term appears
- The Gayatri Mantra Worship
As practised it goes: Om, the pranava ; then the three vyahritis , the "utterances," bhur (earth), bhuvah (mid-air), svah (heaven), the three worlds stacked and named; then the verse.
- Hindu cosmology: the fourteen worlds and the ages of the universe Essentials
Hindu cosmology describes not one creation but a beginningless cycle. The universe is a brahmāṇḍa, a cosmic egg, breathed out and drawn back in across immense spans…
- The Gayatri Treatise
Then the three vyahritis , the "utterances": bhur, bhuvah, svah , the earth, the mid-air, and the heaven, the three worlds named and gathered.
- The Taittiriya Upanishad: the ladder of selves, from food to bliss Treatise
The classroom runs on: a hymn for intelligence (1.4), the doctrine of the vyahritis , the three sacred utterances bhu , bhuvas , suvas , to which "Mahachamasya taught a fourth, viz.