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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]
Imparting the Gayatri mantra to young Hindu men is an important part of the traditional upanayana ceremony [citation needed], which marks the beginning of study of the Vedas. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan described this as the essence of the ceremony, [21] which is sometimes called "Gayatri diksha", i.e. initiation into the Gayatri mantra. [41]
Vishvamitra is said to have written the Gayatri Mantra. It is a verse from a sukta of Rigveda (Mandala 3.62.10). It is a verse from a sukta of Rigveda (Mandala 3.62.10). Gāyatrī is the name of the Vedic meter in which the verse is composed.
'salutation to (Goddess) Twilight', or 'salutation during the twilight') is a mandatory religious ritual centring around the recitation of the Gayatri mantra, traditionally supposed to be performed three times a day by Dvija communities of Hindus, [1] [2] particularly those initiated through the sacred thread ceremony referred to as the ...
Ranjani and Gayatri were born to N. Balasubramanian [2] and Meenakshi (a Carnatic vocalist as well). Born into a Tamil Brahmin family deeply involved in classical music, Ranjani and Gayatri's musical talents were discovered at a very early age. Gayatri could identify over a hundred ragas when she was barely two and a half and Ranjani could ...
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Vasavi Kanyaka Parameshvari is a Hindu goddess, primarily revered by the Komati community of Andhra Pradesh. [1] She is recognized as a Kanyaka form of Parvati in Shaivism, while in Vaishnavism she is identified as Lakshmi.
A bījamantra (Sanskrit: बीजमन्त्र, romanized: bījamantra, lit. 'seed-mantra', in modern schwa-deleted Indo-Aryan languages: beej mantra), [1] or a bījākṣara ("seed-syllable"), is a monosyllabic mantra believed to contain the essence of a given deity.