Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c7.581
Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c7.581
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(2) Daśaratha divided among his wives the divine pāyasa (pudding) got from the putrakāmeṣṭi yajña which was performed so that he might be blessed with children. Somehow or other a kite snatched some pudding and flew off with it. On its way the pudding fell down from the beaks of the kite on the fingers of Añjanā doing tapas in the forest. She ate that pudding and Hanūmān was born as the son of Añjanā due to the extraordinary powers of the pudding. (Ānanda Rāmāyaṇa).