{"id":11019,"date":"2012-05-12T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-12T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2012\/05\/12\/where-ramayana-recitation-continues-for-18-years\/"},"modified":"2012-05-12T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-12T12:00:00","slug":"where-ramayana-recitation-continues-for-18-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2012\/05\/12\/where-ramayana-recitation-continues-for-18-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Ramayana Recitation Continues For 18 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newstrackindia.com\/newsdetails\/2012\/04\/28\/42--Where-Ramayana-recitation-continues-for-18-years-.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ACHNERA, UTTAR PRADESH, April 28, 2012 (Newstrack India): A Hindu temple in this small, bustling town on the outskirts of Agra is making a record of sorts with the continuous recital of the Indian epic Ramayana for the past 18 years.<\/p>\n<p>The Ram Hanuman temple opposite the Achnera railway station, about 15 miles from Agra, has become a major centre of attraction for locals and those visiting the town. The recital of the holy book since 1994 is a feat every resident of this town is proud of.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;akhand paath&#8217; or continuous recital started October 21, 1994, and since then the Ramayana has been recited more than 3,440 times, the temple priest claims. The temple is located on the Uttar Pradesh-Rajasthan border. He says there has never been a shortage of &#8216;pathaks&#8217; or readers. &#8216;They consider it a privilege to volunteer their services&#8230;there is some invisible force that sustains the enthusiasm of people.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source ACHNERA, UTTAR PRADESH, April 28, 2012 (Newstrack India): A Hindu temple in this small, bustling town on the outskirts,&#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-11019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11019","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=11019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}