[one hundred ten] Shaivites assert him being an avatar of Shiva.[21] Hanuman's identification as one of many eleven Rudras may well replicate a Shaiva sectarian claim on an ever more popular god, suggesting his kinship with, and as a result likely Command above, a class of brilliant and ambivalent deities. https://hanumanhindutemple.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-significance-of-hanuman-mandirs.html