A vanara king who lived on Meru. During the time he lived there, Brahma cursed an apsara named Managarva and transformed her into a female monkey. She became Anjana, the wife of Kesari. They were childless for a long while. They prayed to Vayu. During that time, the devas approached Shiva and requested him to incarnate and help Vishnu when the latter incarnated as Rama to kill Ravana.  Shiva and Paravti took the form of monkeys, entered the forests, and began copulating. But they didn’t return for a long time and the devas sent Vayu to find them. Vayu took the form of a hurricane and shook the jungle. Still, Shiva and Parvati didn’t come out. Parvati was shy to come out in her pregnant form. They climbed an ashoka tree which alone stood still in the hurricane. Vayu went close to investigate and Shiva and Parvati appeared in front of him. Parvati refused to take the vanar baby, still in her womb, to Kailash, and gave it to Vayu. Vayu gave it to Anjana and Anjana soon gave birth to a baby. This was Hanuman. He was also known as Anjanaputra, Kesariputra and Vayuputra too.