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… s sharp fingernails. This work became known as the *Hanumad Rāmāyaṇa*. Sometime later, Sage Vālmīki travelled to the Himalayas to show Hanumān his own newly completed Sanskrit epi …

A textual stratigraphy of Hanumān across the Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa, the Śiva Purāṇa, the Adhyātma and Ānanda Rāmāyaṇas, and Tulsīdās's Rāmcharitmānas — plus the Upaniṣadic anchor …

… e Gāyatrī Mantra as Savitṛ, 'the divine stimulator'. In the Rāmāyaṇa, Sage Agastya teaches Rāma the Āditya Hṛdayam at the height of the war with Rāvaṇa. In later Purāṇic literature …

Vasiṣṭha is best known in the Rāmāyaṇa as the **Kula Guru** — the family priest and chief advisor — to King Daśaratha and the Raghu dynasty. He perfor …

… mīki is remembered as the ādi-kavi — the first poet — whose Rāmāyaṇa gave Indian civilisation its enduring template of dharma, kingship, and devotion.

… ratures. In the earliest stratum, specifically the *Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa* (composed circa 3rd century BCE), Hanumān is depicted primarily as a highly intelligent, eloquent, and powerfu …

… d Āgamas — most notably the 15th-century Bengali *Krittibās Rāmāyaṇa*, the *Ānanda Rāmāyaṇa*, and the highly detailed *Parāśara Saṃhitā*. During the war of Laṅkā, Rāvaṇa sought th …

… s detailed in the *Skanda Purāṇa* and various regional folk Rāmāyaṇas. Rāvaṇa, a master of astrology, had bound all nine celestial planets (*Navagrahas*) to his throne. Śani Dev wa …

… gs.** A rare narrative preserved in the regional *Bhāvārtha Rāmāyaṇa* describes the early rivalry between the *vānara* king Vālī and the unborn Hanumān. Learning that Añjanā was pr …

… proud residents, the creation and sacrifice of the *Hanumad Rāmāyaṇa*, and the cyclical revelation of the ring in Pātāla Loka, these narratives consistently instruct the seeker tha …