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vanara

वानर vānara

A 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.

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