Note On Birth Of Hero In Ancient India

SR No.: 269468
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: W B Bollee
Publisher: W B Bollee
Total Pages: 28
Language: English
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(1,33,5 and 9). The authors may have conferred this title on Rāma's devotee on the strength of enumerations of Hanumān's good qualities in Vālmīki's Rāmāyana 7,36,43 sqq., where sauvīrya is ascribed to him, and a passage such as Rām 6,128,32 vānaraḥ manuşam vigraham krtvā (said of Sugrīva's elephant corps mounted by monkeys in human shape proceeding to Lankā). Hanumān is also called Langūr Vir.170 Mahāvīra is further found as the name of a son of BỊhadratha (Rām 1,71,7), and, in the last century, as that of the man who revived Buddhism.
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