He crosses the Palk Strait to visit Sita and tell her that her husband is coming to save her, and on his way back from Lanka, he burned most of Ravana's fortress after his tail was set on fire.
In the Mahabharata, this figure is displayed on Arjuna's flag at the Battle of Kurukshetra. As a child he mistook the sun for a mango and swallowed it but was struck by Indra's thunderbolt, which upset Vayu, his father. In the Sundara Kanda, he fetches Garuda to save his master from the grasp of poisonous snakes. He is also sent to retrieve Sanjeevani, a sacred plant from the Himalayas, to save Lakshman's life. He crosses the Palk Strait to visit Sita and tell her that her husband is coming to save her, and on his way back from Lanka, he burned most of Ravana's fortress after his tail was set on fire. For ten points, name this devotee of Rama and ape-like god of Hinduism.
In the Mahabharata, this figure is displayed on Arjuna's flag at the Battle of Kurukshetra.
{Hanuman}