that was an interesting , if odd , question , one that brought back a candlelit indian night of me under the covers and madhuri reading to me from the mahabharata about bhimas first encounter with hanuman and explaining to mebetween passages , and with an understanding that twinkled in her eyesthat of course hanuman looked like a monkey now , but when he was larger than the mountains and had leaped the oceans to come here , he had really been a white horse , larger than the skies .