🚧This site is under construction — data is currently being added and may be incomplete or change.🚧
🕉

Sanatan Dharma

सनातन धर्म — Hindu Scripture Knowledge Base

The glory of the five-syllabled Mantra (pañcākṣara-māhātmya) - Verse 49

Linga Purana (GRETIL / Wisdomlib) · 1 · Verse 85.49

linga-puranabhaga-1chapter-85

Sanskrit Original

इन्द्रो ऽधिदैवतं छन्दो गायत्री गौतम ऋषिः। मकारः कृष्णवर्णो ऽस्य स्थानं वै दक्षिणामुखम।।

indro 'dhidaivataṃ chando gāyatrī gautama ṛṣiḥ| makāraḥ kṛṣṇavarṇo 'sya sthānaṃ vai dakṣiṇāmukham||

🤖 AI GeneratedAI Generated

The lord said: The metre is Daivī Gāyatrī and the great Ātman is the presiding deity; the first, second and fourth letters are Udātta (high). The fifth is Svarita (neither high nor low), the middle one is Niṣāda.