Doubts & Discussions about Hanuman Mythology - Page 2

Originally posted by: Rajnish_Kumar

To begin the D&D here. First question which came in my mind is how exaclty the vaanars look like. Do there face are like monkey as they show in most of the TV shows or they are just a class of human. i.e human with different physical feature are a class of tribes who came to be known as vaanar. I am sure monkey and vaanar are different. but the question is then who are those vaanar?.
One more thing I din't understood in all TV shows the male vaanar are shown with monkey face but female vaanar with human face. Isn't it a blooper?

Originally posted by: Khalrika

Kal, don't laugh. I like big color fonts. 😆😆😆

'Nyway, thanks sooooooo much for opening the Doubts & Discussion topic on this forum. I am so glad we can extend the Ramayan, all things related to Vanar, and other purans discussions here.

I cannot tell u how much I've missed all the heated discussions I've had with u and Vrisha. I wonder why he is not here.

Originally posted by: Rajnish_Kumar

I have already send PM to vrisha but he has not came online as my PM outbox still showing it unread. He will come here as soon as he reads it i hope. I want all ananya, chen2chic, lalitha akhl and more to participate here😊

Originally posted by: _LalithaJanaki_

Great question!

I think Vanars are half monkey-half human....with a human head but a monkey body. This pic of Lord Hanuman, which is believed to be how Hanumanji really looks like, is what I base my belief of how vanars looked like.

Originally posted by: Vibhishna

Good question . . .

I know for sure the Vanars were not humans but in many versions they are said to be capable of assuming human forms.

I am not sure if they were the same size of the monkeys now but I think it is unlikely and they must have been much bigger.

I agree with your last point. It never made sense to me either. In the serial Jai Hanuman, not only Kesari and Anjana but also Sugreev and Angad were shown to have human faces most of the time. At times they assumed Vanar forms (in the serial it was shown as if when they were in a fight and wanted to increase their strength, thhey took up their true Vanar forms).

I tend to believe the vanars looked like Hanuman in this picture - all of them maybe not so majestic as he was but they must have resembled him to a great extent.

Originally posted by: Khalrika

I love the real pic of Hanumanji too. It is said that the guy who took the pic died immediately? Does anyone know? If that story is true I had a doubt. Did he die because he dared to take a pic? Or, because he got darshan of Hanumanji? Can anyone explain?

Originally posted by: _LalithaJanaki_

Yes, the guy died, not because he dared to take the pic but because he got the darshan of Hanumanji. The power emanating from Hanumanji's body was too much for him to take so he died. After all, we all look at the picture as a picture only but the man actually saw Hanuman with his own eyes up close.