Anjana

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To read about the Cantabrian fairy, see Anjana (Cantabrian mythology).

An idol of Anjani Mata, having son Hanuman in her lap in the Anjani Mata temple, Chomu.

Añjanā (Tamil: Anchanai, Malay: Anjani or Anjati, Thai: Sawaha) was the mother of Hanuman, one of the heroes of the Indian epic, the Ramayana. According to one version of the story, Añjanā was an apsara named Puñjikastalā, who came to earth and married Kesari, a monkey chief. Vayu, god of the wind, carried the divine power of Lord Shiva to Anjana's womb, and thus Hanuman was himself an incarnation of Lord Shiva.^[1]

Notes

↑ Pollet, Gilbert (January 1995). Indian Epic Values: Ramayana and Its Impact: Proceedings of the 8th International Ramayana Conference, Leuven, 6–8 July 1991 (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta). Peeters. ISBN 978-90-6831-701-5.

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Ikshvaku clan	Dasharatha Kausalya Sumitra Kaikeyi Rama Bharata Lakshmana Shatrughna Sita Urmila Mandavi Shrutakirti Lava Kusha

Vanara	Hanuman Kesari Anjana Sugriva Vali Tara Rumā Angada Makardhwaja

Rakshasa	Ravana Vibhishana Kumbhakarna Indrajit Akshayakumara Atikaya Devantaka Kabandha Khara Mandodari Maricha Mayasura Narantaka Prahasta Subahu Sulochana Sumali Surpanakha Tataka Trishira Viradha

Sages	Agastya Ahalya Arundhati Bharadwaja Kambhoja Parashurama Vasistha Vishvamitra Rishyasringa

Other characters	Jambavan Janaka Jatayu Manthara Maya Sita Sampati Shabari Shravan Vedavati

Places	Ayodhya Mithila Dandakaranya Kishkindha Lanka

Other	Lakshman Rekha List of adaptations

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