. Manu Vaivasvata as s ra ddhadeva: On the Insertion of the Pitr kalpa into the Harivamsa :- HORST BRINKHAUS The Harivamas has traditionally been regarded in India as a supplement (khila) to the Mahubharata. In my view, this especially refers to the core of the HV which was devoted basically to embedding the events & main heroes of the epic into a history of the world mainly along geneal- gical lines from creation to the narrative present after the Bharata war. As the core of the HV I regard those parts of it which have been included in Willibald Kirfel’s compilation of the Puranapancalaksana, though I take this core of the HV to be late epic & pre-Puranic. Valmiki’s Portrayal of Hanuman:- Learned yet at times foolish, wise yet also impulsive, Hanuman is clearly a major figure in the valmiki Ramayana but, in contrast to later of the Rama story where his devotion to Rama is the outstanding feature of his character, in the original story his primary loyalty is to Sugriva & it is Sugriva’s obligations towards Rama which lead him to serve Rama’a cause. In this article I focus on the different facets of Hanuman’s portayal in the earliest levels of the Ramayana, those that convenience I would designate as composed by Valmiki, & the ways in which – and the reasons why – these develop over time to the point where his birth & childhood had to be treated at such length in 7.35-36. If we disregard the very brief mentions in the two tables of contents at the start of the Balakanda, Hanuman is intraduced surpisingly abruptly at the start of the Kiskindhakanda without any real background &, although he is involved in almost all the action of the rest of the book, he is rarely in the foreground there, whereas he plays a key role in the Sundarakanda, before reverting on the whole to a lesser role in the Yuddhakanda, (the main exceptions being his fetching of the mountain of herbs & his being sent by Rama to bring the news to Bharata, both of which occur in passages expanded during the second stage of growth).