Váyu
Also known as: God of Wind / Wind / Wind-God · Family: Gods · Role: Wind-God · First appears: Book I, Canto 1 · Nárad
In Book I, Canto 16, Hanúmán is born as Váyu’s son. In Book IV, Canto 66, Anjaná gives birth to Hanumán, whose father is the Wind-God; there Váyu also stops the world’s breezes in anger when he sees Hanumán injured.
In Book IV, Canto 67, Váyu is called the eternal friend of Agni. In Book V, Canto 1, he is credited with saving Maináka by laying him beneath the ocean’s wave. In Book VI, Canto 71, Váyu comes to Lakshmaṇ and advises him that his shafts cannot pierce his foe’s armor; in Canto 130, he bestows a golden chain on Ráma.
Relationship record
Life events
- Hanúmán was born as the son of Váyu.(Book I, Canto 16 · The Vánars)
- With: Hanumán
- “Hanúmán, best of monkey kind, Was son of him who breathes the wind:”
- Anjaná gave birth to Hanumán, whose father was the Wind-God.(Book IV, Canto 66 · Hanumán)
- The Wind-God stopped the world's breezes in anger over Hanumán's injury.(Book IV, Canto 66 · Hanumán)
- With: Hanumán
- “The wandering Wind-God saw thee lie With bleeding cheek and drooping eye, And stirred to anger by thy woe Forbade each scented breeze to blow. The breath of all the worlds was stilled,”
Book I, Canto 1 · Nárad
- child: Hanumán “And there the steadfast friendship won Of Hanumán the Wind-God’s son.”
Book I, Canto 16 · The Vánars
- child: Hanumán “Hanúmán, best of monkey kind, Was son of him who breathes the wind:”
Book IV, Canto 4 · Lakshman’s Reply
- child: Hanumán “Son of the God who rules the wind, Declares Sugríva’s self would be”
Book IV, Canto 37 · The Gathering
- child: Hanumán “He ceased: the son of Váyu heard, Submissive to his sovereign’s word;”
Book IV, Canto 44 · The Ring
- child: Hanumán “In strength and speed which naught can tire Thou, worthy rival of thy sire The mighty monarch of the wind, Where’er thou wilt a way canst find.”
Book IV, Canto 66 · Hanumán
- admired: Anjaná “And captured by her peerless charms He strained her in his amorous arms.”
- child: Hanumán “’Tis thine, O mighty chief, to share The Wind-God’s power, his son and heir.”
Book IV, Canto 67 · Hanumán’s Speech
- child: Hanumán “The Wind-God, Fire’s eternal friend, Whose blasts the mountain summits rend, With boundless force that none may stay, Takes where he lists his viewless way. Sprung from that glorious father, I In power and speed with him may vie,”
- friends with Agni “The Wind-God, Fire’s eternal friend, Whose blasts the mountain summits rend,”
Book V, Canto 1 · Hanumán’s Leap
- child: Hanumán “Son of the Wind, ’tis thine to share The might of him who shakes the air;”
- protégé: Maináka “The great-souled Wind inclined to save, And laid me neath the ocean’s wave.”
Book V, Canto 41 · The Ruin Of The Grove
- child: Hanumán (The text identifies Hanumán as the Wind-God’s son.) “Then joyous thought the Wind-God’s son:”
Book V, Canto 51 · Hanumán’s Reply
- child: Hanumán “Son of the God of Wind, by name Hanumán, to this isle I came.”
Book V, Canto 55 · Fear For Sítá
- child: Hanumán “O glorious is the exploit done By Hanumán the Wind-God’s son.”
Book V, Canto 57 · Hanumán’s Return
- child: Hanumán “Look he returns, the Wind-God’s son,”
Book VI, Canto 1 · Ráma’s Speech
- child: Hanumán “By such a deed the Wind-God’s son”
Book VI, Canto 3 · Lanká
- child: Hanumán “O Váyu’s son, describe it all, With palace, fort, and gate, and wall.”
Book VI, Canto 28 · The Chieftains
- child: Hanumán “The peerless Vánar, he who came To Lanká for the Maithil dame, The Wind-God’s son Hanumán; thou Hast seen him once, behold him now.”
Book VI, Canto 52 · Dhúmráksha’s Death
- child: Hanumán “His keen eyes flashed with wrathful fire, And, rapid as the Wind his sire, Strong as the rushing tempests are,”
Book VI, Canto 59 · Rávan’s Sally
- child: Hanumán “Remember,” cried the Wind-God’s son, “Remember all that I have done,”
Book VI, Canto 71 · Atikáya’s Death
- with Lakshmaṇ (Váyu advises Lakshmaṇ to use a more powerful weapon.) “Then came the friendly Wind-God near, And whispered thus in Lakshmaṇ’s ear: “Such shafts as these in vain assail Thy foe’s impenetrable mail.”
Book VI, Canto 74 · The Medicinal Herbs
- child: Hanumán “Why ask,” Vibhishaṇ cried, “for one Of lower rank, the Wind-God’s son?”
Book VI, Canto 102 · Lakshman Healed
- child: Hanumán “He ceased: the Wind-God’s son obeyed Swift through the clouds his way he made.”
Book VI, Canto 130 · The Consecration
- protégé: Ráma “A golden chain, that flashed and glowed With gems the God of Wind bestowed:”
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Extracted from the original text of The Rámáyan of Válmíki. Made with Rho MD.