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sāvitrīm

sāvitrī f. a verse or prayer addressed to Savitṛ or the Sun ( esp. the celebrated verse, RV. iii, 62, 10 ; also called gāyatrī, q.v. ), AitBr. &c. &c.

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1. sāvitrī

sāvitrī f. a verse or prayer addressed to Savitṛ or the Sun ( esp. the celebrated verse, RV. iii, 62, 10 ; also called gāyatrī, q.v. ), AitBr. &c. &c.

2. sāvitrī

N. of the wife of Brahmā (sometimes regarded as the above verse deified or as the mystical mother of the three twice-born classes, or as the daughter of Savitṛ by his wife Pṛśni ), MBh. ; Kathās. &c.

3. sāvitrī

of the wife of Satya-vat (king of Śālva ; she was daughter of Aśva-pati , king of Madra , and is regarded as a type of conjugal love; her story is the subject of a fine episode of the Mahā-bhārata ; see sAvitryupA KyAna ), MBh. ; R. ; BhP.

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Sanskrit corpus record built from GRETIL sources (citations and statistics; GRETIL running text is not redistributable). Passage text, where shown, from the Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (CC BY 4.0). Dictionary senses from Monier-Williams (1899, public domain), via the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries.