Editing Savitr (section)

==Popular culture ==
In [[DC Comics]]' [[Flash (DC Comics character)|The Flash]] comics and [[The CW]]'s ''[[The Flash (2014 TV series)|The Flash]]'' TV series, the [[Speedster (fiction)|speedster]] [[Savitar (comics)|Savitar]] is an enemy of the Flash who named himself after the [[Hindu]] god.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Flash: Secrets of Savitar |url=https://www.dc.com/blog/2016/11/22/the-flash-secrets-of-savitar |access-date=2023-05-29 |website=DC |language=en}}</ref>

In a fiction by author Ryan Sequeira, called "EvOLv", where Savitr has been named as one of the Supreme Gods - parallel with [[Shiva]] - The God Savitr is referred to as the source of light in the multiverse.{{fact|date=August 2021}}

In the Dark-Hunter fantasy series by author [[Sherrilyn Kenyon]], Savitar is a Chthonian god killer who is thousands of years old and was responsible for policing the Atlantean pantheon.{{fact|date=August 2021}}

For the second and all subsequent seasons of the television series ''[[Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)|Battlestar Galactica]]'', [[Richard Gibbs]] composed new opening music whose words come from the [[Gayatri Mantra|Sāvitrī Mantra]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Casey|first=Jim|chapter="All This Has Happened Before": Repetition, Reimagination, and Eternal Return|title=Cylons in America: Critical Studies in Battlestar Galactica|editor-last1=Potter|editor-first1=Tiffany|editor-last2=Marshall|editor-first2=C.W.|location=New York|publisher=Continuum Books|date=2008|isbn=9780826428479|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mpcyEAAAQBAJ|page=238}}</ref> A literal translation of the verse can be given as: "May we attain that excellent glory of Savitar the god: so may he stimulate our prayers."<ref>{{cite book|last=Giffith|first=Ralph T. H.|title=The Hymns of the Rigveda. Vol. 2|location=Benares, India|publisher=E.J. Lazarus|year=1890|oclc=10900077|page=87|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gZURAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA87}}</ref>