{"id":10313,"date":"2011-07-22T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/07\/22\/devotees-throng-shiva-temples-celebrate-shravan\/"},"modified":"2011-07-22T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-22T12:00:00","slug":"devotees-throng-shiva-temples-celebrate-shravan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/07\/22\/devotees-throng-shiva-temples-celebrate-shravan\/","title":{"rendered":"Devotees Throng Shiva Temples, Celebrate &#8216;Shravan&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daijiworld.com\/news\/news_disp.asp?n_id=108529\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>LUCKNOW, INDIA, JULY 16, 2011 (Daiji World): Devotees thronged to Lord Shiva temples in Uttar Pradesh Saturday to offer prayers on the onset of the Hindu month of `Shravan&#8217; that heralds the coming of the monsoon. Shiva temples witnessed a huge turnout including Mankameshwar, Buddeshwar, Kalyangiri, Siddhnath and Koneshwar.<\/p>\n<p>Amidst chants of `Bam Bam Bhole&#8217; and `Har Har Mahadev&#8217;, devotees were seen awaiting their turn to offer milk, water, honey and leaves of wood apple to Lord Shiva. In Varanasi, a festive mood was all-pervasive in temples, particularly in the ancient Vishwanath temple, where the ritual `Rudrabhishek&#8217; and prayers were performed.<\/p>\n<p>Over 35,000 people, including `Kanwarias&#8217; (Shiva devotees) are expected to arrive at the Vishwanath temple by noon, an official said. Kanwarias, the orange-robed devotees of Lord Shiva, collect holy water of the Ganga river in Haridwar in pots and walk back to their home during Shravan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source LUCKNOW, INDIA, JULY 16, 2011 (Daiji World): Devotees thronged to Lord Shiva temples in Uttar Pradesh Saturday to offer,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}