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Hanuman , monkey faced God is a great devotee of Rama , one of the ten Avatars/ incarnation of Vishnu. He is a popular god throughout India, particularly in the north. Almost all villages have a shrine for hanuman also known as Anjaneya .
He is the son of wind god Vayu and Anjana and so called Maruti , Vayu putra and Anjaneya ; and being the messenger of Lord Rama , he is also known as Rama duta.
Valmiki in Sanskrit and Kamban in Tamil describe his adventures and heroic acts in three cantos from Kishkinda Kaanda to Yuddha kaanda of Ramayana.
Valmiki illustrated him as a person with two hands folded together and raised above head. This means I bow and worship you from head to foot, Sirasaa namaami .
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Hanu means jaw and his jaw was deformed in an incident and so he is called Hanuman
There are two scientific explanations,
The vaanara – vana + nara= Vaanara= forest men shows that they deformed their jaw as a custom ; this type of body or mouth or ear alteration is seen around the world in certain tribes.
Second explanation is they wore monkey emblem or monkey masks. He is shown as a normal man when he met Rama and Lakshmana for the first time. More over Ramayana has bear people, eagle people as well showing more totem symbols. In paintings they were shown with animal face just to explain it to common people.
Even Sangam Tamil literature describes a painting in Tirupparankundram where Indra is shown as a cat in the Ahalya episode. It is written 2000 years ago.
When Hanuman saw his master Rama and his brother Lakshmana faint with fatigue on the battle field of Lanka, he flew in an amazingly short time to the Himalaya. He uprooted the whole hill with rare herbs that have power to raise a dead man to life and returned to Lanka to revive Rama and Lakshmana and with them also thousands of monkeys.
His heroism, strength and devotion are always admired, and these characteristics are shown in his statues and idols. Kings erected hanuman shrines at the gates of their forts to infuse into the hearts of their fighting men the spirit of heroism.
Sometimes he is represented with hands showing the Abhaya and Varadha postures. He is Brahmachari
Hanuman in Ramayana had super human powers. He was able to fly with tremendous speed. He jumped from India to Ceylon/ Sri Lanka in one bound; he tore up trees, carried away big rocks, even hills and performed many other wonderful tasks.
He tackled all hurdles on the way to Lanka in different ways; this served as a management lesson in solving problems.

In one of his fights with the rakshasas /demons they greased his tail and set it on fire, but to their own destruction, for with it Hanuman burnt down their capital city.
Along with his army of monkeys, he built a bridge to Lanka so that his army could march towards Lanka. He killed several demons in the battle.
When he met Rama in Kishkinda he made Rama and Sugriva, King of Kishkinda to sign a friendship treaty. As a result of which, Vali, sugriva’s brother was killed by Rama.
After Rama killed Ravana, demon king of Lanka, Hanuman accompanied Rama and Sita to Ayodhya and there he received from him the reward of perpetual youth and life. So he is one of the SEVEN CHIRANJEEVIS, never dying seven. This means his service will be remembered for generations.
Hanuman was well versed in grammar according to Valmiki and Kamban
Tulsidas attributes great powers like Ashtama Siddhis (Eight Types of Superhuman powers) to Anjaneya in his Hanuman chaalisaa. Millions of Hindus recite it every day

to be continued……………….
Hinduism through 500 Pictures, in Tamil and English, படங்கள் மூலம் இந்து மதம் கற்போம்-6, Part Six, Hanuman, Anjaneya





















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