Jāmbavān
mythological figure · 1 work · 17 mentions · 37 anchored passages
king of bears · lord of the bears · king of the bears · Jāmbavat · foremost of bears · foremost of monkeys · greatly wise Jāmbavān · lord of bear troops · lord of bears · old Jāmbavān
in the texts
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
Jāmbavān, veteran monkey leader among the search party, who rises to question Saṃpāti about Sītā.
Mainda and Dvivida, and likewise Hanūmān and Jāmbavān, and the crown prince Aṅgada, and Tāra who roams the forest.
Jāmbavān, the foremost of monkeys, together with all the leaping ones, suddenly rose from the ground and addressed the king of vultures.
I shall travel ninety yojanas—there is no doubt.