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Names of Hanuman

Names and epithets of Hanuman located in the Rāmāyaṇa text and the dictionary.

This collection follows names to their sources. It describes where a name comes from, not who uses it.

Names recorded in Indian use

Hanumān

having (large) jaws (hanu-mat), Monier-Williams: N. of a monkey-chief

Rām 1.1.57; Rām 4.2.13; Rām 4.2.28

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Āñjaneya

son of Añjanā; Monier-Williams: N. of the monkey Hanumat

Māruti

son of Marut (the wind-god); Monier-Williams: of Hanumat

Rām 5.1.151; Rām 5.7.27; Rām 5.7.33

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Other names in the sources

These words are named in the sources as names of the deity. Their listing here does not say that they are used as given names.

Mārutātmaja

son of the wind; Monier-Williams: of Hanumat (L.) and of fire

Rām 4.2.27; Rām 4.4.23; Rām 4.4.24

Anilātmaja

son of the wind; Monier-Williams: Hanumat or Bhīma

Rām 5.1.119; Rām 5.56.2

Vāyuputra

son of the wind; Monier-Williams: N. of Hanumat (RāmatUp.; R.) and of Bhīma

Rām 5.1.57; Rām 5.1.150; Rām 5.63.26

Pavanātmaja

son of the wind; Monier-Williams: gives '= pavanaja' and Bhīmasena; Hanuman use is in the Rāmāyaṇa text itself

Rām 4.3.20; Rām 4.43.15; Rām 4.44.5

Rāmadūta

Rām 4.61.11; Rām 5.56.114; Rām 7.86.11

Sources

  1. Monier-Williams, A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899), Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries (local copy sources/cologne/mw.txt) ↗ (opens in a new tab)
  2. Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki, Baroda critical edition, GRETIL e-text sa_rAmAyaNa (Muneo Tokunaga et al.) ↗ (opens in a new tab)

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