Example sentences for: hanuman

How can you use “hanuman” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The Licchavi kings founded the city as Kantipur in the eighth century and laid the foundations of the Hanuman Dhoka Durbar, the palace which gives this area its name.

  • The self-immolation of widows, known as sati — a widow becomes sati, a “virtuous woman,” by climbing onto her husband’s funeral pyre — has disappeared, but the monkey-god Hanuman and elephant-headed Ganesh are still idolized, and nobody will dare to deny the sanctity of the cow and all her products: milk, curd, butter, and dung, the last of which is used for fuel.

  • Tour guides say the red paste is to spare Hanuman the sight of the goings-on — more acrobatic than erotic — carved on the struts of the small Jaganath Temple opposite.

  • Animals: balisaur, barasingh, bhalu, bharal, chikara, chital, gaur, hanuman, jumnapari, kakar, kastura, langur, nilgai, rusa, tangun, tattoo

  • Two other often-represented deities are Hanuman, the monkey god and helper of Rama, and Garuda, the winged birdman who carries Vishnu.


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