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Hanuman (हनुमान), known also as 'Anjaneya', is one of the most important personalities in the epic, the Ramayana. He is a vanara who aided Lord Rama in rescuing His Consort, Sita, from the Rakshasa king Ravana. He symbolises the pinnacle of bhakti, and is considered to be the eleventh Rudra avatar of Lord Shiva. He is more well-known as the (spiritual) Son of Vayu deva, the Hindu deity of the wind. He is believed by some scholars to be a source for the Chinese mythological character Sun Wukong. Animal depiction of warriorsWhen Rama besieged Lanka, all his supporters like Kishkindha king Sugriva and his commander Hanuman, Jatayu, Jamvanta etc were Jat warriors. Bhaleram Beniwal has pointed out that these characters have been depicted as monkeys or animals is out of jealousy of the manuvadis and agents of dharma who never wanted to bring the true history of Jats. [1] The Jat hostorian Thakur Deshraj has explained about the reasons of animal depiction of people prevalent in India during Ramayana period. During this period all four varnas had come into existence in Aryans. The duties of each varna were defined but they could change varna. Brahmans had come into a dominant position and had full control over kings and the society. Some kshatriyas like Kartaviryarjuna had become rebellions against the increased influence of Brahmans. In Sarswati ashrama a big organization under the leadership of Parsurama was constituted by Brahmans to penalize such kshatriyas. Brahmans suppressed kshatriyas like Kartaviryarjuna and deprived these kshatriyas from their status. The Aryans by this time had crossed Vindhyas and moving towards south. Vanars were inhabitants in southwest Vindhyas. Pampa sarovar was their main center. Vanars were not monkeys but either aboriginal inhabitants of that area or people of Aryan groups who had come from Iran via Bombay and reached south of Vindhyas. [2] Other Jat historians have also treated Hanuman as a Jat warrior of Maan gotra. [3] Some other historians treat Vanar as a gotra of jats found in Haryana in India. Lord Hanuman of Ramayana was a kshatriya of Vanar clan. He was not a monkey as is shown in Ramayana. [4] The VanarasVanara (वानर) literally refers to be an abbreviation of the from Vana-nara meaning the humans (nara) settled in forests (vana) that is the forest dwellers. The epic Mahabharata describe them as a tribe dwelling in the midst of forest. They were encountered by Sahadeva, a Pandava general who led a military campaign to south India. According to the Ramayana, the Vanaras lived primarily in the region of Kishkindha in the midst of Dandaka Forest, where Lord Rama met them during his search for Sita. The Vanaras helped Rama in his search, and also in his battle against Ravana, Sita's abductor. The greatest and most famous vanara is Lord Hanuman, a loyal devotee of Lord Rama. Some of the other notable Vanaras were Hanuman's mother Anjana, his foster father Kesari, Sugriva, Vali and Angada. References
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