RamayanaHanuman
Hanuman: who Hanuman is in the Ramayana and the role in the story, in plain words.
The monkey hero, son of the wind god, whose devotion to Rama is the model of selfless service. He leaps across the sea, finds Sita, burns Lanka and carries the Sanjivani mountain. See Hanuman.
See the story of the whole epic in seven books and the other characters.
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A retelling in our own words of a story that is told in many different ways across India and Asia. Tellers differ on many episodes; where it matters we say so. It is not a scholarly translation.