Rudra-Shiva concept (Study)
by Maumita Bhattacharjee | 2018 | 54,352 words
This page relates ‘Shiva’s incarnation as Hanuman’ of the study on the Rudra-Shiva concept in the Vedic and Puranic literature, starting with the concept of God as contemplated by the Rishis (Vedic sages). These pages further deal with the aspects, legends, iconography and eulology of Rudra-Shiva as found in the Samhitas, Brahamanas, Aranyakas, Upanishads Sutras and Puranas. The final chapters deal with descriptions of his greatness, various incarnations and epithets.
23. Śiva’s incarnation as Hanūmān
The Śiva Purāṇa describes that Śiva once saw Viṣṇu in the form of an enchantress with glittering qualities. As if hit by the arrows of Cupid, Śiva let his semen fall, dislodged from its seat. The seven celestial sages retained that semen in a leaf and poured that through the ears of Añjani, the daughter of Gautama. After sometime Śiva was born of it in the form of a monkey named Hanūmān. From childhood, Hanūmān was very powerful and he burnt the Laṅkā city of Rāvaṇa. He is the incarnation of Śiva. He is the uplifter of devotees.[1]
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Ibid., 3.20