(The armour of Hanuman with five faces.)
“Sri Panchamukha Anjaneya Swami was the main deity of Sri Raghavendra Swami. The
place where he meditated on this five-faced form of Hanuman is now known as
Panchamukhi, wherein a temple for him has been built.
There is also a shrine for Panchamukha Anjaneya Swami at Kumbakonam in Tamil Nadu, India.
A 40 feet (12 m) tall monolithic green granite murti of Sri Panchamukha Hanuman has been installed
in Thiruvallur, also in Tamil Nadu. This place was known as Rudravanam in olden times
when many saints and seers had blessed this place with their presence. The Panchamukha
Hanuman Ashram itself was established by a saint called Venkatesa Battar.
Hanuman assumed this form to kill Mahiravana, a powerful rakshasa black-magician and
practitioner of the dark arts during the Ramayana war. Mahiravana had taken
Lord Rama and Lakshmana captive, and the only way to kill him was to extinguish five
lamps burning in different directions, all at the same instant. Hanuman assumed
His Panchamukha form and accomplished the task, thus killing the rakshasa, and
freeing Rama and Lakshmana.
This form of Hanuman is very popular, and is also known as Panchamukha Anjaneya and
Panchamukhi Anjaneya. (Anjaneya, which means "son of Anjana", is another name of
Hanuman). One of the most famous places of Pligrimage in central India is claimed to be
the Resting Place of Shiri Hanuman Ji is Chitrakoot. The Hanuman Dhara Temple is
situated on the peak of mountain where there is natural rock formation image of Shri
Hanuman inside the cave and a natural stream of water falling on the tail. It is believed
that after the coronation of Lord Ram, Hanuman requested for a permanent place to settle
in the Kingdom of Lord Ram, where his Injury of burns on his tails will be cured. Lord
ram then with his arrow spurred a stream of water on the tip of mountain and asked
hanuman to rest there and water of the stream will fall on his tail to cool down burning
sensation on his tail.
The access to the cave temple is through stairs starting from bottom of the mountain to its
top. It takes roughly 30 to 40 minutes to reach the temple. Over time the temple has
gained a new name, namely Hanuman Dhara. The most fascinating thing about the
temple is that the cave temple is located on the top of the mountain and water comes in
the stream throughout the year, although the mountain has no permanent source of water
on it like Glaciers or snow coming from the covered mountains of Himalayas.
Other places where statues of Lord Hanuman can be found are:
- A 67 foot Murti of Lord Hanuman Ji has been installed at Sankat Mochan Shri Hanuman
- Mandir, located in the Punjab town of Phillaur.
- A 40 foot Murti of Sri Panchamukha Hanuman has been installed at Tiruvallur,
- near Chennai,India.
- A 36 foot Murti of Sri Panchamukha Hanuman has been installed
- at Panchavatee,Pondicherry, called Viswaroopa Jayamangala Panchamukha SriAnjaaneyaswamy.
- A 32 foot Murti of Adhivyadihara Sri Bhaktha Anjaneyaswamy, Nanganallur, Chennai which is molded out of a single rock.
- Every Face of Sri Panchamukha Hanuman has significance —
- Sri Hanuman faces east. He grants purity of mind and success.
- The Narasimha faces south. He grants victory and fearlessness.
- The west facing Garuda removes black magic and poisons.
- The north facing Varaha, showers prosperity, wealth.
- The Hayagriva mukha faces the Sky. But since we cannot see it, it is usually tilted and
- shown above Hanuman's face. Hayagriva gives Knowledge and good children.”
- This Kavacham is addressed to this fierce form of Hanuman.
To tell the fact as I understood , it is not Sthothra in the normal sense of the
word. It gives large amount of Thanthric manthras aimed at protection. Some people believe that this sloka should not be recited but used to worship the five faced Hanuman. It is written at the end of the stotra
that it was taught by Rama to Sita as per her request. But the first few lines show that this is a version was taught by Garuda, where he mentions that it was created by the Lord of lords.
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