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hanumat

hanu—mat &c. See below.

hanu-mat m. ‘having (large) jaws’, N. of a monkey-chief (one of the most celebrated of a host of semi-divine monkey-like beings, who, according to [R. i, 16], were created to become the allies of Rāma-candra in his war with Rāvaṇa; Hanumat was held to be a son of Pavana or Māruta, ‘the Wind’; and is fabled to have assumed any form at will, wielded rocks, removed mountains, mounted the air, seized the clouds, and rivalled Garuḍa in swiftness of flight; according to other legends, Hanumat was son of Śiva; his mother's name was Añjanā q.v.; in modern times Han° is a very common village god in the Dekhan, Central and Upper India, cf. [RTL. 220]), [MBh.]; [R.] &c.

a particular sort of monkey, Simia Sinica, [W.]