Hanumân

Hanumân is the name of a fabulous monkey, who plays a great rôle in the legendary history of the second or classical period of Hindu mythology. He is represented there as the strenuous friend and ally of Vishnu, when the latter, in his incarnation as Râma, made his expedition to Ceylon, in order to recover his wife Sîtâ, carried off by the giant Râvana. In the war between Râma and Râvana, Hanumân, on one occasion, is related to have bridged over the ocean between the continent of India and Ceylon with rocks of a prodigious size, which he and his friends threw into the sea. See ENTELLUS MONKEY, VISHNU.