Jambavan

Revered as a vanara

Jambavan is an aged chief in Sugriva's host, called king of the bears and foremost of the monkeys, who, in the Kishkindha Kanda of the Ramayana, tells Hanuman the story of his birth and urges him to leap over the ocean.

The path

Stories, one bead at a time

  1. How Hanuman was bornReady to read
  2. Hanuman leaps for the sunReady to read
  3. Hanuman prepares to leap to LankaReady to read
  4. Hanuman tells the monkeys at MahendraReady to read
  5. Hanuman pleads for Vibhishana's refugeReady to read
  6. The mountain of herbsReady to read
  7. Sita's necklace for HanumanReady to read

Begin: How Hanuman was born

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