Hanuman and His Panchamukha form

'Five-faced'
Anjaneya has five faces (Pancha Mukha) and ten weapons. The five faces are that of Lord Hanuman, Lord Narasimha, Lord Adivaraha, Lord Hayagriva, and Lord Garuda.

Hanuman as 'Sri Panchamukha Anjaneya Swami' (Anjaneya = 'son of Anjani') is more famous in every parts of the world.

1. Sri Varaha facing the North
2. Sri Narasimha facing the South
3. Sri Garuda facing the West
4. Sri Hayagriva (a much earlier Avatar of Vishnu) facing the sky and
5. His own (Hanuman) facing the East

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.

The origin of Sri Panchamukhs Hanuman can be traced to a story in Ramayana. During the war between Lord Rama and Ravana. Ravana took help of Mahiravanka who is the king of pathala.Lord Hanuman in order to protect Lord Ram and Lakshman formed a fortress with his tail. Mahiravana took the form of Vibeeshana and took Lord Ram and Lakshman to pathala loka.Hanuman entered pathala loka in search of Rama and Lakshmana, He found out that to kill Mahiravana he had to extinguish five lamps burning in five different directions at the same time, so he has taken the Panchamukha form with Hanuman, Hayagriva, Narasimha, Garuda and Varaha faces and extinguished the lamps and killed Mahiravana. And There is a belief that one of the faces is that of Sri Vinayaka , half Anjaneya and half Vinayaka but i cant find a valid souce to make this statement correct .

Jaya Sri Ram Jaya, Jaya Sri Ram
Jaya Hanuman Jaya, Jaya Hanuman.

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