Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.4073

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3) Children. Bhīmasena and Hanūmān are said to be the prominent sons of Bhagavān Vāyu. It is mentioned in Ṛgveda, Maṇḍala 1, Anuvāka 7, Sūkta 112, that Agni was the son of Vāyu. To make fire from wood by attrition, the hands obtain strength by the help of the life breath called Vyāna (a breath or vāyu). It is from this, that the idea that fire is the son of Vāyu, came into existence. To know how Vāyu obtained the paternity of Bhīma and Hanūmān see under Bhīma and Hanūmān. It is stated in Brahma Purāṇa that a group of celestial maids called ‘Muḍā’ owes its origin to Vāyu.