page_title: Gayatri
section_title: Shaivite Gayatri
hierarchical_section_title: Gayatri / Shaivite Gayatri
caption_attribution_description: English: Sadashiva
context_page_description: Gayatri is the personified form of popular Gayatri Mantra, a hymn from Vedic texts. She is also known as Savitri and Vedamata. Gayatri is often associated with Savitr, a solar deity in the vedas. Saivite texts identify Maha Gayatri as the consort of Shiva, in his highest form of Sadasiva with five heads and ten hands and according to other texts like Skanda Purana, Gayatri is the name of the consort of Lord Brahma.
context_section_description: Saivism sees Gayatri as the consort of eternal blissful absolute Parashiva who manifests in the form of sun, Sivasurya. He is omnipotent omnipresent Sadasiva, whose name is Bharga. Sadashiva's consort Manonmani is non other than the mantra form of Gayatri who possess the power of her husband Bharga, within her. The popular form of Gayatri with five heads and ten arms was initially found in Saivite iconographies of Manonmani in North India beginning from 10th century CE. Saivite view on Gayatri seems a later development from the combination of vedic practice of Gayatri reverence and its Saivite inclusion as a manifestation of Shakti. This could be the root for the terrific aspect of Gayatri explained in the later puranas as the killer of demon Vetra identifying her with Adi Parashakti.
caption: According to Saivite Siddhantic perspective, Gayatri is the consort of Sadasiva, the supreme being Parashivam.[13][5]
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