Editing Hanuman (section)

===Epics and Puranas===

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 |quote  = '''Sita's scepticism'''
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''Vanaranam naranam ca''
''kathamasit samagamah''

Translation:
How can there be a
relationship between men and monkeys?
</poem>
 |source = —''Valmiki's Ramayana'''<br />Sita's first meeting with Hanuman<br />(Translator: Philip Lutgendorf)<ref>Philip Lutgendorf (1999), [http://www.manushi.in/docs/106.%20Like%20Mother,%20Like%20Son.pdf Like Mother, Like Son, Sita and Hanuman] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170929092531/http://www.manushi.in/docs/106.%20Like%20Mother,%20Like%20Son.pdf |date=29 September 2017 }}, Manushi, No. 114, pp. 22–23</ref>
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Hanuman is mentioned in both the [[Hindu epic]]s, ''[[Ramayana]]'' and ''[[Mahabharata]]''.<ref>{{cite book |author=Nanditha Krishna |title=Sacred Animals of India |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J3NU35nngxEC&pg=PA178 |year= 2010 |publisher=Penguin Books India |isbn=978-0-14-306619-4 |pages=178–}}</ref>

Hanuman is mentioned in the [[Puranas]].<ref name="Parmeshwaranand">{{cite book | author=Swami Parmeshwaranand | title=Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Puranas, Vol. 1 | year=2001 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nmmkM0fVS-cC&pg=PA411 | access-date=14 July 2012 | publisher=Sarup & Sons | isbn=978-81-7625-226-3 | pages=411–}}</ref><ref name="CamillePrasada2010">{{cite book |author1=Camille Bulcke |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cvE4wF-cfX0C&pg=PA117 |title=Rāmakathā and Other Essays |author2=Dineśvara Prasāda |publisher=Vani Prakashan |year=2010 |isbn=978-93-5000-107-3 |pages=117–126 |access-date=14 July 2012}}</ref> The [[Shiva Purana]] mentions Hanuman as an avatar of [[Shiva]]; all other Puranas and scriptures mention him as the spiritual son of [[Vayu]], an incarnation of Vayu, or sometimes an avatar of [[Rudra]] (another name of Vayu).<ref name="CamillePrasada2010"/><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W3PXAAAAMAAJ|title=The Rigveda, with Dayananda Saraswati's Commentary, Volume 1|publisher=Sarvadeshik Arya Pratinidhi Sabha|year=1974|page=717|quote=The third meaning of Rudra is Vayu or air that causes pain to the wicked on the account of their evil actions...... Vayu or air is called Rudra as it makes a person weep causing pain as a result of bad deeds .}}</ref> Commonly, Hanuman is not related to Shiva in Vaishnava traditions but is known as Shiva's avatar or sun in Shaiva traditions.<ref>{{cite book|title=Gender Fluidity in Hindu Mythology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bk1tDwAAQBAJ|author=Devdutt Pattanaik|publisher=Penguin Random House|date=10 September 2018|page=11|isbn = 9789353052720|quote=In Vaishnava traditions, Hanuman is not related to Shiva. In Shaiva traditions, Hanuman is either Shiva's avatar or son.}}</ref>

Other texts, such as those found in South India, present Hanuman as a being who is the union of Shiva and Vishnu, or associated with the origin of [[Ayyappa]].<ref name="Williams2008p146"/> The 17th century [[Odia language|Odia]] work ''Rasavinoda'' by [[Dinakrushna Das|Dinakrishnadasa]] goes on to mention that the [[trimurti|three gods]] – Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva – combined to take to the form of Hanuman.<ref name="Nagar1999">{{cite book | author=Shanti Lal Nagar | title=Genesis and evolution of the Rāma kathā in Indian art, thought, literature, and culture: from the earliest period to the modern times | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gPLqAAAAMAAJ | access-date=14 July 2012 | year=1999 | publisher=B.R. Pub. Co. | isbn=978-81-7646-082-8}}</ref>