Gayatri
Gayatri is called the cause of everything in Chapters 13 and 23 of Brihan Nila Tantra. She is also identified as Lakshmi, Mahāmāyā, Parameshwari, omniscient, worshipped by Shiva himself, the great absolute (māhāparā), supreme (paramā), the mother of the highest reality (parāparāmba) and Ātman.
↻ synthesized from 4 sources
When
- First attested
- 1500 BCE
- Attested period
- -1500 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Vedic period
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Parameshwari, Gayatra, Savitri, Durga, Mahalakshmi, Mahakali, Mahamaya, Śruti, Smriti, Ātman Vidya, Brahmavidya, Adya Kali, Mahāmārī, Lakṣmī, Shakti, kali
- created by
- Brahma
- syncretized with
- Savitri
- manifests as
- Saraswati
- manifested by
- Gandhari
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“In Chapters 13 and 23 of Brihan Nila Tantra she is called the cause of everything, Gayatri, Lakshmi, Mahāmāyā, Parameshwari, omniscient, worshipped by Shiva himself, the great absolute (māhāparā), supreme (paramā), the mother of the highest reality (parāparāmba) and Ātman.”
#12844 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“his body was divided into two parts. They then formed the gods and goddesses, whereby one part was male and the other one female. Thus female parts became Gayatri, Savitri, Saraswati, and others.”
#30340 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“The 24 Letters of Gayatri mantra represent 24 Vedic Meters (i.e. Chandas).”
#30743 · extracted by deepseek/deepseek-chat
“Gayatri afraid of Savatri's wrath sits at a lower hill at the other end, the eastern side of the lake”
#46189 · extracted by openai/gpt-oss-120b:free