Response to your query for additional Information on Pancha Mukha HanumAn Archai

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Namo NaarAyanAya !

 

Dear Sri Hari:

 

The source literature is Sudarsana Samhithai .

The Manthrams for each face ,kavacham are all

there. The tattvam for worshippers of this form of

HanumAn is that all the four faces arose out of

deep DhyAnam of HanumAn . There are 10 hands

with Aayudham , VihNu chinhams ( like Yoga Narasimhan

at ShoLingar Dhivya Desam )and 15 eyes including

the third eye on the forehead.

 

Pancha Mukha , EkAdasa Mukha HanumAn worship could

be of Tantric nature. For ParamaikAnthis , AarAdhanam

of Sriman NaarAyaNan is the only one to be followed .

HanumAr himself would not want it any other way.

 

Hanumath AshtOttharam refers to this form in the 37th naamam:

"Bhavishyath ChathurAnanaaya Nama:"

>From an iconographic point of view , this archA is

some thing to behold and admire.

 

The RaajagOpala Temple at Anantha Mangalam near

Maayavaram in Tamil Naadu has another ArchA in

worship of "Dasa Bhuja ThrinEthra AaanjanEyan

( pancha Mukha HanumAn). This is an accepted form

in Silpa Saasthrams.

 

That is all !

Namo NaarAyaNAYa !

V.SatakOpan