The birth of Lord Hanuman is not just a story about the arrival of a divine child. Behind it lies a mother’s pain, a powerful curse, twelve years of intense तपस्या, and a divine plan that connected two very different stories. According to the traditional account, Anjana was once an apsara named Punjikasthala, who was born on Earth as a vanara because of a sage’s curse. Her freedom from that curse was linked to giving birth to a divine incarnation of Lord Shiva. But how did that actually happen? The answer makes Hanuman’s birth one of the most fascinating stories in Hindu mythology.
