Hanuman cannot cross the ocean until Jambavan reminds him of his own strength — cursed as a child to forget it — and the detail is the story. He then grows enormous, leaps a hundred yojanas, finds Sita, refuses to rescue her himself because that is Rama's to do, and burns the city on the way out. He is the most worshipped figure in village India, and the reason is legible: he is not a god one negotiates with, but the model of unhesitating service, and the strength that arrives when someone reminds you of it.