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Hanuman: The Story of Fifteen Temples, from Ayodhya to America
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 1 2026
Pages: 86
Weight: 0.22
Height: 0.22 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
A guardian who never went home. A god who lived on a trailer for a year. Fifteen temples that all tell the truth about the same devotion - differently, every single time.
Hanuman's birthplace is claimed by two hills that have never agreed with each other. The Hanuman Chalisa's own origin is told a different way by different temples. Most books smooth that over. This one doesn't.
HANUMAN: The Story of Fifteen Temples, from Ayodhya to America follows one devotee across three thousand years and two continents - from the hilltop fortress where a king once declared no one could approach him without a guardian's permission, to a Gujarati village where a saint's touch made stone move, to a small farm outside Taos, New Mexico, where a marble statue once sat strapped to a flatbed trailer for an entire year because no one had found it a home yet.
Each of the fifteen chapters is built the same honest way:
- Researched against Valmiki's Ramayana, Tulsidas's Ramcharitmanas and Hanuman Chalisa, temple oral history, and documented modern history
- Cross-checked across independent sources, with every real disagreement named rather than quietly resolved - Written in vivid, scene-driven storytelling - simple enough for a fourteen-year-old, rich enough for a lifelong devotee - Illustrated with an original hand-drawn piece for every chapter - Closed with a sourcing note explaining exactly what's scripture, what's tradition, and what's still contestedYou'll meet a farmer whose plough struck something buried and changed a village forever. A scholar who drew the same picture in charcoal for twelve mornings and refused to stop when it kept vanishing by evening. A queen who couldn't hold a growing mountain long enough, and a god who chose to honor her effort anyway. A community of indentured laborers' descendants who, a century later, chose freely to build the tallest Hanuman statue outside India.
This is the first of two companion volumes. This book tells the stories. Its companion, a practical pilgrim's guide, covers what this one leaves out on purpose - the opening hours, the rituals, the roads that actually get you there.
Fifteen temples. Fifteen stories. One devotee who never once asked to be worshipped the same way twice - only to be believed in, wherever that belief found him.
Written by Sudip Jhawar, author of Twelve Flames: The Story of the Twelve Jyotirlingas and Twelve Flutes: The Sacred Origin Stories of India's Twelve Legendary Krishna-Radha Temples.
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