Vānaras
Hanumān
Son of Vāyu, minister of Sugrīva. Jāmbavān has to remind him of his own strength before the leap.
Sundara Kāṇḍa sarga 1Vālmīki (primary text)In the text
Hanumān meets Rāma at Ṛṣyamūka and speaks so well that Rāma remarks on it to Lakṣmaṇa. As Sugrīva's minister he becomes the go-between of the story: he crosses the sea, finds Sītā, brings her message back and later carries news of Rāma's return to Bharata. Devotional tradition later made him a god of service.
Primary text: Śrīmad Vālmīkīya Rāmāyaṇa, Gita Press, Gorakhpur. Later traditions and living-tradition associations are labelled as such. Return to the Rāmāyaṇa World.