The origin of sri panchamukhs hanuman can be traced to a story in ramayana. As per hindu diety many years back during the war between lord rama and ravana. Ravana took help of mahiravanka who is the king of pathala. Lord hanuman in order to protect lord ram and lakshman formed a fortress with his tail. Mahiravana took the form of vibeeshana and took lord ram and lakshman to pathala loka. Hanuman entered pathala loka in search of rama and lakshmana, he found out that to kill mahiravana he had to extinguish five lamps burning in five different directions at the same time, so he has taken the panchamukhi form with hanuman, hayagriva, narasimha, garuda and varaha faces and extinguished the lamps and killed mahiravana. According to hanumath prakaranam in sri vidyarnavatantram, anjaneya has five faces pancha mukha and ten weapons. The five faces are that of lord hanuman, lord narasimha, lord adivaraha, lord hayagriva, and lord garuda. Hanuman is a great yogi mystic having transcended the five senses pancha indriyas. About hindu god hanuman - lord hanuman is a god and an ardent devotee of the god rama. He is one of the central figures in the hindu epic ramayana. He is the symbol of power and strength. Hindu religiouss pious and powerful deity is lord hanuman also known as pavanputra or bajrang bali. Hanuman known also as anjaneya, is one of the most important personalities in the epic, the ramayana. Lord hanuman was the son of the wind god. He was very strong and was a great devotee of lord rama. He helped lord rama defeat the king of lanka ravan and get back goddess sita. He is a vanara who aided lord rama, an avatar of vishnu, in rescuing his consort, sita, from the rakshasa king ravana.