Sauti the story teller told this to his friend Saunaka in Naimisha Forest. Bending with humility he finshed the wonderful Mahabharata in the evening, and the next horning Saunaka asked, Lotus-eyed Sauti, who was that monkey Hanuman who met Bhima in the Hills, and who stayed in Arjuna's war-flag while he fought? What is that story of Rama, which keeps Hanuman alive so long as it is told by men on Earth?'' {MOTILAL BANARSDASS}