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gayatri

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ga⋅ya⋅tri

[gah-yuh-tree]
–noun Hinduism.
a Vedic mantra expressing hope for enlightenment: recited daily by the faithful and repeated in all religious rites and ceremonies.

Origin:
1835–45; < Skt gāyatri, deriv. of gāyatra song, hymn
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