Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c7.589
Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c7.589
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When Vāyu (air) quitted the earth everything thereon came to a dead-stop. Living things were on the verge of death due to suffocation. And, then Brahmā and others went to Pātāla, comforted Vāyu and congratulated the monkey child. On the basis of Indra's vajra having made a scar on his hanu (jaw-bone or chin) the monkey child was named Hanūmān by the Devas, who, one by one blessed him as follows :—