Gayatri is the personified form of popular Gayatri Mantra, a hymn from Hindu Vedic texts. She is also known as Savitri and Vedamata (mother of vedas).Gayatri later came to be personified as a Goddess. She is another consort of lord Brahma.
She is shown as having five heads and is usually seated on a red lotus - this signifies wealth. The four heads of Gayatri represent the four Vedas, the fifth head represents the almighty God (Mukta, Vidruma, Hema, Neela, Dhavala) with the ten eyes looking in eight directions plus the earth and sky, and ten arms holding various types of weapons attributed to Shiva, Vishnu and Brahma.
The weapons held by the ten hands of Gayatri give a divine protection, desired boon to the aspirant, at the same time all the enemies and bad elements working unfavourably against the devotee are killed. She appears with five faces and ten hands holding, sword, lotus, trident, disc, skull, Varada in left and goad, noose, a manuscript, the jar of ambrosia and Abhaya in right.
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