[Advaita-l] Devi Gayatri chandas

[V Subrahmanian]

Thank you Sri Animesh,  I hope my friend is satisfied with the replies you
have given.

warm regards
subrahmanian.v

On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 8:04 PM, Animesh via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> SrI mAtre namaH
>
> Namaste ,
>
> Answer to your query " 1. In the ऋषि-छन्दस्-देवता invocation for Pranava,
> we say - प्रणवस्य ऋषि
> ब्रह्म देवी गायत्री छन्दः परमात्मा देवता " lies in  'pingala chhanda sutra
> ' .
> It says प्रथमं छंदस्त्रिपदा गायत्री i.e. the first chhanda is gayatrI
> having 3 padas ( of 8 aksharas )  and also it says देव्येकं  i.e.  if
> 'devi' visheshana ( adjective ) is mentioned with gayatrI chhanda it
> becomes chhanda of one akshara . Hence देवी गायत्री छन्दः means a chhanda
> having one akshara only .  Similarly if devi adjective is added to
> anushtubha i.e. devi anushtubha it becomes chhanda of three akshara and
> devi paNkti chhanda means a chhanda having five akshara i.e. in
> panchAksharaM . ( There are such eight adjectives starting from Arshi to
> brahmi in chhanda sutra )
> For narayana astAksharaM I'm unable to answer on basis of chhanda sutra
> and also it is out of scope of my spiritual studies .
> Hope this may help you . ( please refer to pingala chhanda sutra and
> agnIpurana chapter 329 for more references )  .
>
>
> Regards
> Animesh
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