This book on Hanuman is an encyclopaedic work that is being presented to the scholarly world. It provides interesting and authentic information on Hanuman including the puja details. It is also fully illustrated.
Like Ganesha, Hanuman is widely worshipped in the country, both in villages and in townships. He is also a tribal god and a folk deity, and around him cultic concepts have gathered he is Rama’s favourite attendant and also a Tantrik hero. He is invoked for success, victory, strength, wisdom and cure of various ailments. The present volume attempts to present a complete picture of this god of many dimensions, along with the ritualistic details of worship.
Vidyalankara, Sastra-Chudamini, Sangita-Kalaratna, Professor Saligrama Krishna Ramachandra Rao, was a well-known scholar who had combined traditional learning with modern research. Well versed in Sanskrit, Pali, Ardhmagadhi and several modern Indian languages and acquainted with Tibetan and some European languages, he had written extensively on Vedanta, Buddhism, Janism, Indian Culture, Art and Literature.
He had written more than Sixty Book in Kannada, a Play in Sanskrit, and a Pali Commentary on a Buddhist classic. One of his books on Iconography in Kannada has won the State Sahitya Academy Award, as also another of his Book on the Tirupati Temple.
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