Editing Gayatri (section)

== Origin ==
Gayatri was the name initially applied to a metre of the [[Rig Veda]] consisting of 24 syllables.<ref name="ban"/> In particular, it refers to the [[Gayatri Mantra]] and the Goddess Gāyatrī as that [[mantra]] personified. The Gayatri mantra composed in this triplet form is the most famous. Most of the scholars identify Gayatri as the feminine form of Gayatra, another name of the Vedic Solar god which is also one of the synonyms of Savitri and [[Savitr|Savitṛ]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Ramachandra Rao|first1=Saligrama Krishna|title=R̥gveda-darśana: Gāyatri mantra|date=1998|publisher=Kalpatharu Research Academy|page=77|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pp8oAAAAYAAJ|access-date=2019-08-20|archive-date=2020-10-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201012022317/https://books.google.com/books?id=pp8oAAAAYAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>