Shri Hanuman Mandir श्री हनुमान मंदिर

• Dakshinmukhi Hanuman

  Most Hanuman shrines face east. This one deliberately faces south (dakshinmukhi), a specially revered form associated with protection from fear and harm; in the story, south is also the way to Lanka.

• The chola

  Hanuman’s murti is coated in sindoor mixed with chameli (jasmine) oil. A folk story tells that he saw Sita apply sindoor for Rama’s long life and covered himself in it. Sindoor is handed to the pujari, who renews the coat.

• The Chalisa climb

  The forty chaupais of Tulsidas’s Hanuman Chalisa are set two to a landing up the stair, with the opening dohas at the foot and the closing doha just below the summit. Many recite one landing at a time as they climb.

• Tuesdays and Saturdays

  Mangalvar (Tuesday) and Shanivar (Saturday) are Hanuman’s days; on Saturdays many also seek relief from Shani’s influence. Sundarkand is often recited on Tuesdays.

• Anjanadri

  This hill is inspired by Anjanadri near Hampi, where tradition places Hanuman’s birth to Anjana: about 575 whitewashed steps climb a hill of granite boulders above paddy fields and the Tungabhadra river. It is an inspiration, not a replica.

• Monkeys

  Bonnet macaques live on the hill. Please do not feed or tease them; hill shrines ask visitors to keep offerings in a closed bag.

• Barefoot

  Footwear is left at the stand by the gateway: the whole climb, from the first step to the shrine, is walked barefoot.

• Salasar Balaji

  Salasar Balaji in Rajasthan, famous for its bearded and moustached Hanuman, inspires this temple’s ritual layer: sindoor offerings and coconuts tied in red moli to a wish tree. Its murti is not copied here.

• Sindoor and chameli oil सिंदूर

  Placed on the plate for the pujari, who renews Hanuman’s orange chola (sindoor in jasmine oil), especially on Tuesdays and Saturdays.

• Boondi laddoo बूंदी लड्डू

  Boondi laddoo is the best loved naivedya of Hanuman; it is shared afterwards as prasad.

• Red flowers लाल पुष्प

  Red flowers, like the red of sindoor, are offered to Hanuman.

• Jasmine (chameli) चमेली

  Chameli is mixed with sindoor for the chola and strung into garlands.

• Coconut नारियल

  A whole coconut is offered and broken; at some hill shrines coconuts wrapped in red thread are tied to a wish tree.

Walk the compound and the halls, leave your footwear at the steps, ring the bell, light incense and a diya, offer sindoor and chameli oil at the deity’s feet, receive prasad, sit in the meditation garden and join the aarti with devotees from around the world, five times a day. The grounds also keep 3 small secrets, each with a story of Lord Hanuman, for those who explore.

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