Gayatri

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Gayatri is a highly revered Vedic poetic meter consisting of three lines of eight syllables each, widely used in Hindu sacred hymns and mantras.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Gayatri canonical 4
Gayatri meter 1
Goddess Gayatri 1

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Statements (34)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Vedic meter
metre in Sanskrit prosody
poetic meter
associatedDeityInUsage Vivasvan
surface form: Savitr
associatedWith Rigveda
belongsTo Vedic chandas system
culturalSignificance marker of Brahmanical ritual identity
symbol of Vedic learning
hasCanonicalExample Gayatri Mantra
hasLineCount 3
hasStructure three lines of eight syllables each
hasSyllabicPattern 8-8-8
hasSyllableCountPerLine 8
hasTotalSyllableCount 24
isConsidered most important Vedic meter
sacred meter
isHighlyReveredIn Hindu tradition
Vedic tradition
isRecitedBy Hindu householders
Hindu priests
isSubjectOf Hindu theological commentaries
prosodic treatises on chandas
isTaughtIn traditional Vedic schools
isUsedFor composition of hymns
recitation of mantras
isUsedIn daily Sandhyavandanam rituals
languageContext Sanskrit
surface form: Vedic Sanskrit
metricalCategory chandas
metricalType tristubh-jagati family of Vedic meters
religiousTradition Hinduism
scripturalStatus mentioned in Rigveda 3.62.10
usedIn Hindu mantras
Hindu sacred hymns
Vedic hymns

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Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Rigveda meterUsed Gayatri
Gayatri Mantra associatedWith Gayatri
this entity surface form: Goddess Gayatri
Tristubh contrastedWith Gayatri
this entity surface form: Gayatri meter
Jagati comparedWith Gayatri