Lord Panchamukhi Hanuman panchalogam statue

Panchamukha (Sanskrit: पञ्चमुख, romanized: Pañcamukha, lit. ‘five faces‘), also rendered Panchamukhi, is a concept in Hindu iconography in which a deity is represented with five heads.^[1] Several Hindu deities are depicted with five faces in their iconography, such as Hanuman, Shiva, Brahma, Ganesha, and Gayatri.

e deity Hanuman is sometimes featured with five-faces in his iconography, known as Panchamukhi Hanuman, or Panchamukhi Hanuman ,Panchamukha Anjaneya.^[3] Each head is that of a deity associated with Vishnu, and is depicted to be facing a cardinal direction: Hanuman faces the east, Narasimha faces the south, Varaha faces the north, Garuda faces the west, and Hayagriva faces the sky. This iconography is not regarded to exist in mainstream Hinduism, and has been primarily featured in the Tantra tradition only since the 15th century CE.^[4][5] The description of the appearance of Panchamukha Hanuman is found in a Tantric treatise called the Hanumat Rahashyam. The section of the text called the Panchamukhahanumat Kavacham contains a description of this form