Gayatri is the personified form of the popular Gayatri Mantra, a hymn of Vedic texts. She is also known as Savitri and Vedamata. Gayatri is often associated with Savitr, a solar deity of the Vedas. The saivite texts identify Gayatri as Shiva’s wife, in its highest form of five-headed and ten-handed Sadasiva, and according to Skanda Purana, Gayatri is the name of Lord Brahma’s wife.
॥ Gayatri Namavali ॥
om tarunaditya-sankasayai namah – sahasra-nayanojjvalayai – vicitramalabharanayai – tuhinacala-vasinyai – varadabhaya-hastabjayai – reva-tiranivasinyai – pranityaya-visesajnayai – yantrakrta virajitayai – bhadra-padapriyayai – govinda-patha-gaminyai ॥ 10 ॥
deva-gana-samtustayai – vanamala-vibhusitayai – syannottama-samsthayai – dhira-jimuta-nisvanayai – matta-matanga-gamanayai – hiranya-kamalasanayai – dhiyai – janoddhara-viratayai – yoginyai – yoga-dharinyai ॥ 20 ॥
natanataika-niratayai – pranavadya-ksaratmikayai – ghoracara-kriya-saktayai – daridryac-cheda-karinyai – yadavendra-kulodbhutyai – turiya-patha-gaminyai – gayatryai – gomatyai – gangayai – gautamyai ॥ 30 ॥
garudasanayai – geya-gana-priyayai – gauryai – govinda-pujitayai – gandharvanaga-ragarayai – gauvarnayai – ganesvaryai – gunasrayayai – gunavatyai – gahvarai ॥ 40 ॥
gana-pujitayai – guna-traya samayuktayai – guna-traya vivarthitayai – gunavasayai – gunadharayai – guhya-gandha-svarupinyai – gargya-priyayai – guru-padayai – guhya-linganga-dharinyai – savitryai ॥ 50 ॥
surya-tanayayai – susumnadi bhedinyai – suprakasayai – sukhasinayai – sumatyai – sura-pujitayai – sughapta-vyavasthayai – sudatya-sundaryai – sagarambarayai – sudhansu-bimba-vadanayai ॥ 60 ॥
sustanyai – su-vilocanayai – sitayai – satvasrayayai – sandhyayai – su-phalayai – suvidhayinyai – subhruve – suvasayai – susronyai ॥ 70 ॥
samsararnava-tarinyai – sama-gana-priyayai – sadhvi-vaisnavyai – sarvabharanabhusitayai – vimalakarayai – mahendryai – mantra-rupinyai – maha-laksmyai – maha-siddhyai – maha-mayayai ॥ 80 ॥
mahesvaryai – mohinyai – madanakarayai – madhusudana-coditayai – minayai – madhura-vasayai – nagendra-tanayayai – umayai – trivikrama-padakrantayai – trisvargayai ॥ 90 ॥
tri-locanayai – samsthitayai – surya-mandala madhyasthayai – vahni-mandalamadhyasthayai – vayu-mandala-samsthitayai – vyoma-mandala madhyasthayai – cakrinyai – cakra-rupinyai – kala-cakra-vitanastayai – candra-mandala darpanayai
॥ 100 ॥
jyotsna-tapamaliptangyai – maha-maruta-vijitayai – sarva-mantrasrayayai – dhenavyai – papa-ghnyai – paramesvaryai – saradayai – maha-devyai namah ॥ 108
