When his rakshasa army was destroyed in the battle against rama, the prince of ayodhya, ravana, the lord of lanka, called for his son mahiravana, a powerful magician would he succeed in killing the noble rama and lakshmana? not while hanuman was around, for this faithful friend had a trick or two of his own the bengali krittivasa ramayana written by poet krittivasa in the 15th century describes how hanuman manages to get around the wily sorcerers schemes