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