{"id":10833,"date":"2012-02-20T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2012\/02\/20\/punjabi-hindus-make-half-million-siva-lingams-for-sivaratri\/"},"modified":"2012-02-20T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-20T12:00:00","slug":"punjabi-hindus-make-half-million-siva-lingams-for-sivaratri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2012\/02\/20\/punjabi-hindus-make-half-million-siva-lingams-for-sivaratri\/","title":{"rendered":"Punjabi Hindus Make Half-Million Siva Lingams for Sivaratri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/ludhiana\/Ludhianvis-pour-out-devotion-in-shivlings\/articleshow\/11956631.cms\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>HAIBOWAL, PUNJAB, INDIA, February 19, 2012 (Times of India): The Shiv temple in Haibowal has been witnessing a unique activity since February 7. People of all age groups are all busy making clay Siva Lingams, and it&#8217;s not just one, two or even thousands, but over 400,000 that they have made till now. The number will reach 500,000 by Monday. There is a strong belief among the devotees that whoever makes a Siva Lingam gets relief from his or her problems and receives Lord Siva&#8217;s blessings. If Janak Rani, a homemaker and resident of area, wishes well being of her family, student Shivani Sharma eyes good marks in exams. There is a strong belief among people that worshipping Lord Siva helps girls in getting a good life partner. &#8220;I come to this temple every morning. When I saw people making shivlings I too pitched in. This time Shivratri is falling on Monday, which is considered very auspicious. My mother had also told me to do so because it would help get me a suitable match,&#8221; said Kavita Verma, a student.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source HAIBOWAL, PUNJAB, INDIA, February 19, 2012 (Times of India): The Shiv temple in Haibowal has been witnessing a unique,&#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-10833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10833","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=10833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}