vanara
वानर vānaraA forest being pictured as a monkey; the vanaras, led by Sugriva and Hanuman, are Rama's allies in the war against Ravana.
Where this term appears
- Who is Hanuman? Deities
The son of the wind Hanuman is a vanara , one of the forest people of the epic, a word usually rendered in English as monkey though it carries more than that, a whole woodland race with speech and valour and ki…
- Who is Rama? Deities
… the long search for her, and it brings Rama his greatest allies, the vanaras , the forest people, and above all Hanuman, the wind-god's son, who leaps the ocean to find Sita and becomes the model of all devoti…
- Is Ram Setu man-made? What the geology actually says Journal
In Valmiki's Ramayana, in the Yuddha Kanda, the Book of War, Rama stands at the ocean's edge with his army of vanaras , the forest-people, and no way across to Lanka where Sita is held.
- The First Poem Treatise
…ond half of the poem is the search and the war: the alliance with the vanaras , the forest people pictured as monkeys; the leap of Hanuman across the sea to find Sita in her captivity; the building of the bridg…
- The New Year and the Avatara Treatise
Hanuman is the son of Anjana and the vanara chief Kesari , and of Vayu , the wind, whose son he is in the deeper telling, which is why he is called Pavanputra and Maruti , child of the wind.