Librería Samer Atenea
Kálamo Books
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
Before he leapt the ocean, before he lifted a mountain, before he knelt at Śrī Rāma’s feet, he was a child of the Wind who sprang into the sky after the rising sun.Long ago the sage Parāśara, father of Vyāsa, told his disciple Maitreya the whole life of Hanumān: his wondrous birth, his boyhood and his teachers, his marriage to Suvarchalā, the daughter of the Sun, his service to Rāma in the great war, and the long ages he has spent since then guarding the world and answering all who call on him.That telling, the Parāśara Saṁhitā, was kept for centuries in Sanskrit and is almost unknown to English readers. Śrī Hanumat Kathā brings the whole of it, all of its surviving chapters, into English for a new generation, including the stories most people have never heard: Hanumān as a king, his battle beside Sītā against the Hundred-Faced demon, his humbling of Garuḍa and Bhīma, his destiny as a future Brahmā, the devotees of later ages whom he protected, and the sacred calendar, holy waters and sanctuaries of Hanumān. Chapter-and-verse references throughout let every story be traced back to its source.Vivid, reverent and faithful to the text, this is the life of Hanumān as the sage Parāśara told it, for young readers, families and every devotee. Book One of the Parāśara Saṁhitā Series.
