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The Mantra

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Notes

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  1. ^ Staal(1986)
  2. ^ "Designated as sāvitrī, or gāyatrī, throughout Vedic and Sanskrit literature". Bloomfield(1906), p.392b.
  3. ^ The Bloomfield concordance lists over 30 cross-references to other vedic texts. Blooomfield(1906), p.392b.
  4. ^ Manusmṛti states that "there is nothing greater than the Savitri (Gayatri) Mantra." (Manu II, 83). Dutt(1906-9), p.51
  5. ^ The Harivamsa calls it the "mother of the Vedas". Tice(2006), p.15-16
  6. ^ In the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna says, "Of all poetry, I am the Gayatri" (BG.10.35). Rahman(2006)
  7. ^ An alternative translation by S.Radhakrishnan interprets BG.10.35 as "Likewise of hymns (I am) Brhtsaman, of metres (I am) gayatri". Radhakrishnan(1982), p.266.
  8. ^ a b Rinehart(2004), p.127
  9. ^ Lipner(1994), p.53
  10. ^ Carpenter(2003), p.31
  11. ^ van Nooten and Holland(1994)[1]
  12. ^ Griffith(1890), p.87
  13. ^ Jones(1807)
  14. ^ Vivekananda(1915)
  15. ^ a b c Radhakrishnan(2007), p.135
  16. ^ Radhakrishnan(1996), p.299
  17. ^ "Gayatri Mantra – The celestial chant". Arya Samaj Bangalore. Retrieved 2009-10-13.
  18. ^ The word Savitr in the original Sanskrit may be interpreted in two ways, first as the sun, secondly as the "originator or creator". Raja Ram Mohan Roy and Maharshi Debendranath Tagore used that word in the second sense. Interpreted in their way the whole formula may be thus rendered. Sastri(1911/12), Appendix "C"
  19. ^ Panikkar(2001), p.38
  20. ^ Panikkar, p. 42.
  21. ^ Panikkar, p. 40.
  22. ^ Wayman(1965), p.315
  23. ^ This is on the authority of the Shankhayana Grhyasutra, 2.5.4-7 and 2.7.10. Gonda(1963), p. 285
  24. ^ Title of the text was Prescript for offering supreme worship by means of the Gayutree, the most sacred of the Veds. Roy(1832)
  25. ^ "So, at the end of the Gayutree, the utterance of the letter Om is commanded by the sacred passage cited by Goonu-Vishnoo 'A Brahman shall in every instance pronounce Om, at the beginning and at the end; for unless the letter Om precede, the desirable consequence will fail; and unless it follow, it will not be long retained.'" Roy(1901)
  26. ^ Sivanath Sastri "History of the Brahmo Samaj" 1911/1912 1st edn. publ. Sadharan Brahmo Samaj, 211 Cornwallis St. Calcutta
  27. ^ Mitra(2001), p.71
  28. ^ Pruthi(2004), p.36
  29. ^ Bakhle(2005)
  30. ^ Radhakrishnan 2007, p. 137

References

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  • L.A. Ravi Varma, "Rituals of worship", The Cultural Heritage of India, Vol. 4, The Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Calcutta, 1956, pp.445-463
  • J. Gonda, "The Indian mantra", Oriens, Vol. 16, (Dec. 31, 1963), pp. 244-297
  • A.B. Keith, The Veda of the Black Yajus School entitled Taittiriya Sanhita, Harvard Oriental Series Vols 18-19, Harvard, 1914

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