Crossword clues for hanuman
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hanuman \Han"u*man\ (h[.a]n"[.u]*man), n. See Hoonoomaun.
Wiktionary
n. The entellus ((taxlink Presbytis entellus species))
Wikipedia
Hanuman (; Hanumān in IAST), also known as Anjaneya, Mahavira, Bajrangbali, is a Hindu god and an ardent devotee of the god Rama. He is one of the central figures in the Hindu epic Ramayana and its various versions. As one of the Chiranjivi he is also mentioned in several other texts, including Mahabharata, the various Puranas and some Jain texts. Vanara (monkey), Hanuman participated in Rama's war against the demon king Ravana. Several texts also present him as an incarnation of Shiva. He is the son of Anjana and Kesari, and is also described as the son of the wind-god Pawan, who according to several stories, played a role in his birth.
Hanuman is a 2005 animated feature film directed by VG Samant and produced by Percept Pictures and Silvertoons. The animated film dramatizes the life of its title character, Hanuman, a Hindu God. The animation was created by Kakarakaya Pulsu. It is India's first major commercial family animated feature (there were several earlier ones made by Pentamedia Graphics). Its box office was Rs. 8.18 crores and was declared a blockbuster hit.
Hanuman, also known as Anjaneya, is one of the most important personalities in the Indian epic, the Ramayana.
Hanuman may also refer to:
- Hanuman (2005 film), 2005 Hindi animated feature film
- Return of Hanuman, a 2007 sequel to the 2005 animated movie
- Anjaneya (film), a Tamil film directed by Maharajan
- Gray langur, a group of Old World monkeys
- Hanumana, Rewa is a town in Rewa district, Madhya Pradesh, India
- Hanuman, a character in the Ringworld's Children book by Larry Niven
- Raj Hamsa X-Air "H" Hanuman ultralight aircraft by Raj Hamsa Ultralights
- Sankatmochan Mahabali Hanuman, an Indian TV serial
Usage examples of "hanuman".
Surprisingly, however, Hanuman had been called to serve the Master of Novices himself, Bardo the Just.
Hanuman had heard that Master Bardo was not an easy man to serve, and he wondered why he had been so honoured.
Hanuman did not like to lie to himself about his own deepest purposes.
They bore Hanuman away to the Well, which was a room of dark tanks and healing waters in the deepest part of the house.
Danlo rapped his knuckles against the wooden box that Hanuman had sent her.
Hanuman was writing at that time in the compact, rather inflexible Latin of the Augustan age, and he wrote with almost no margins in a script hardly thicker than the legs of a millipede.
He wanted to tell Hanuman that the ontogenesis of man into god was dangerous beyond belief and fraught with shaida.
Just then Hanuman finished his chess game, and he tipped over the salt shaker in token of defeat.
They were mostly Hanuman monkeys—flailing, whiptailed ectomorphs who acted as if they owned the place—which, according to Hindoos, they did.
At Hanuman House she started dropping names, and Padma, Seth's wife, traced a tenuous and intricate family relationship between Seth and the man who had driven the Prince of Wales during his visit to Trinidad.
Within the girl who had served in the Tulsi Store and romped up and down the staircase of Hanuman House, the wit, the prankster, there were other Shamas, fully grown, it seemed, just waiting to be released: the wife, the housekeeper, and now the mother.
But there was an admixture of other primates (notably, an orang-utan recovering from pneumonia) who refused to accord the Hanumans the respect they deserved, and so as they all fought their way upwind toward the market, variously scampering on all fours, waddling on all twos, knuckle-dragging, hopping on lamed feet, swinging from limbs of stately mango-trees, and stampeding over rooftops, they were acting out a sort of running Punch-and-Judy show, flinging coconuts and brandishing sticks at one another.
Mudskippers, ocelots, tree sloths and hanumans -- we'd have all the most ridiculous animals.
One charged straight through the middle of a crowd of Hanuman monkeys who were carrying hairy arm-loads of coconut-meat, figs, mangoes, jamboleiras, papayas, yellow pears, green bilimbins, red cashews, and prickly jack-fruit from the dissolving market, pursued by enraged bazaaris who were in turn pursued by a toothless cheetah.
As he cycled past the unfinished, open houses on the County Road, he wondered how many nights he would spend behind the closed facade of Hanuman House.