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gayatri

[ gah-yuh-tree ]

noun

Hinduism.
  1. a Vedic mantra expressing hope for enlightenment: recited daily by the faithful and repeated in all religious rites and ceremonies.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of gayatri1

1835–45; < Sanskrit ⲹٰ, derivative of ⲹٰ song, hymn
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"It's not just waste. It's poison," said Gayatri Tiwari, a mother of five in Tarapur village.

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He has fathered six children and he married his fourth wife, Putri Gayatri Pertiwi, in 2012.

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Dr. Gayatri Amirthalingam, deputy director of public health programs at Britain’s Health Security Agency, said the new chickenpox vaccine recommendations would “help make chickenpox a problem of the past.”

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He cites Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s observation that Western intellectuals commonly feel “entitled to remain ignorant of other cultures, while expecting individuals from other cultures to know about them.”

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Dr Gayatri Amirthalingam, the UKHSA's deputy director of public health programmes, confirmed work was ongoing with the Home Office to roll out vaccines and antibiotics at Manston.

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