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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 932 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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HANUMAN , in

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HINDU

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MYTHOLOGY

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MONKEY

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GOD

god, who forms a central figure in the.Ramayana . He was the

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child of a nymph by the god of the

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WIND
WIND (a common Teut. word, cognate with Skt. vats, Lat. ventus, cf. " weather," to be of course distinguished from to " wind," to coil or twist, O.Eng. windan, cf. "wander," "wend," &c.)

wind . His exploits, as the ally of Rama (incarnation of

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VISHNU (Sanskrit, " the worker," from root vish, "to work ")

Vishnu) in the latter's recovery of his wife Sita from the clutches of the demon Ravana, include the bridging- of the straits between

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India and

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CEYLON

Ceylon with huge boulders carried away from the Himalayas . He is the

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LEADER, BENJAMIN WILLIAMS (1831– )

leader of a

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HOST

host of monkeys, who aid in these supernatural deeds . Temples in his

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HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour are frequent throughout India .

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