{"id":10950,"date":"2012-04-16T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2012\/04\/16\/tirupati-temple-receives-record-one-day-donations\/"},"modified":"2012-04-16T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T12:00:00","slug":"tirupati-temple-receives-record-one-day-donations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2012\/04\/16\/tirupati-temple-receives-record-one-day-donations\/","title":{"rendered":"Tirupati Temple Receives Record One-day Donations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-india-17582194\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TIRUPATI, INDIA, April 2, 2012: One of India&#8217;s richest Hindu temples has collected 57.3m rupees (US$1.2m) in donations on one day &#8211; the most ever in its history. This was in spite of turnout being lower than usual for Sunday&#8217;s festival of Ramnavami because of school exams.<\/p>\n<p>The coffers of Venkateswara Temple in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh were boosted by a single donation of 20m rupees (US$390,000) said temple officials.<\/p>\n<p>The Hindu shrine has an annual income of $340m &#8211; most of it from donations. Between 50-100,000 pilgrims visit the temple on a daily basis with the numbers rising on the more auspicious Hindu festival days.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is the highest collection ever in Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams&#8217;s history,&#8221; Bommireddy Sharada, a collector at the temple, told The Times of India newspaper. Offerings made by the 70,000 devotees to the temple on Sunday included cash, jewelry, silver and gold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source TIRUPATI, INDIA, April 2, 2012: One of India&#8217;s richest Hindu temples has collected 57.3m rupees (US$1.2m) in donations on,&#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-10950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10950","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=10950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}