{"collection":"Hinduism","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_hin_rama_ry341_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_hin_rama_ry341_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_hin_rama_ry341_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rama/ry341.htm","summary":"This is a passage from an English verse translation of the *Ramayana*, the Sanskrit Hindu epic, likely from the 19th-century translation by Ralph T.H. Griffith. It belongs to the episode where the V\u0101nar (monkey) army has stalled in despair before the ocean, and an elder chieftain delivers a rousing speech to Hanum\u0101n to persuade him to leap across the sea in search of the captive S\u012bt\u0101. The speech works by recounting Hanum\u0101n's miraculous origin: his mother Anjan\u0101 was a celestial nymph cursed to live on earth, the Wind-God V\u0101yu fathered Hanum\u0101n upon her, and the child's divine lineage was confirmed when, as an infant, he leapt three hundred leagues toward the sun and survived a thunderbolt from Indra that shattered his jaw \u2014 the injury that gave him his name. The chieftain argues that Hanum\u0101n alone inherits the Wind-God's boundless strength and is therefore the only being capable of the crossing. What makes the passage distinctive is its use of genealogical mythmaking as a form of heroic persuasion: the speech functions less as tactical planning than as a ceremonial awakening, reminding a hero of powers he seems to have forgotten. It ends with Hanum\u0101n literally expanding in size \u2014 a physical embodiment of restored self-knowledge \u2014 making the episode a compact dramatization of how divine identity is recovered through memory and exhortation.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"BOOK IV: Canto LXVI.: Hanum\u00e1n.","tradition":"Hinduism","translated_text":null,"word_count":837}