Vanara

In Hinduism, Vanara are either monkeys, apes, or a race of forest-dwelling people. Quotes Normally, looking at the Ramayana story externally, we would be tempted to call the Vanaras and Raksasas Anaryas. However, the Ramayana depicts situations where members of these societies use the term 'Arya' to refer to each other. Madhav M. Deshpande, What to do with the Anaryas? Dharmic discourses of inclusion and exclusion in : Aryan and Non-Aryan in South Asia: Evidence, interpretation, and ideology, Proceedings of the International Seminar on Aryan and Non-Aryan in South Asia, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 25-27 October, 1996, ed. by Johannes Bronkhorst and Madhav M. Deshpande. Harvard Oriental Series, Opera Minora, 3. 1999 , page 112. External links Category:Ramayana