{"id":12579,"date":"2012-09-27T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2012\/09\/27\/treasure-hunters-vandalise-monument-near-hampi\/"},"modified":"2012-09-27T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-27T12:00:00","slug":"treasure-hunters-vandalise-monument-near-hampi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2012\/09\/27\/treasure-hunters-vandalise-monument-near-hampi\/","title":{"rendered":"Treasure Hunters Vandalise Monument Near Hampi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/states\/karnataka\/treasure-hunters-vandalise-monument-near-hampi\/article3929508.ece#.UGDDcniH3Bc.email \">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>KARNATAKA, INDIA, September 24, 2012 (the Hindu): An ancient mantapa, situated on the way to Malyavanta temple in Hampi, the erstwhile seat of the Vijayanagar empire, was vandalized late on Saturday night in what is suspected to be a bid to find treasure. The four-pillared mantapa, a brick-and-lime structure and popularly known as gaali gopura, was razed. Crow bar and wooden poles were among the material found near the site.<\/p>\n<p>The Malyavanta temple and the surrounding area are under the control of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI). A team of archaeologists are expected to reach Hampi to study the reason for the mantapa&#8217;s collapse, sources in the ASI told The Hindu. With the round-the-clock patrolling of the area &#8212; by teams comprising personnel from the police, ASI, State&#8217;s archaeology department and the Hampi World Heritage Area Management Authority &#8212; discontinued, the culprits found it easy to go about the &#8220;treasure hunt&#8221;, said the sources. Superintendent of Police Chandragupta, along with other officers, including those from ASI, visited the spot. He held a meeting with officials of various departments to chalk out a plan to secure monuments at Hampi. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source KARNATAKA, INDIA, September 24, 2012 (the Hindu): An ancient mantapa, situated on the way to Malyavanta temple in Hampi,,&#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-12579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12579","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=12579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}