{"id":14228,"date":"2015-05-13T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2015\/05\/13\/nepal-s-living-goddess-devotees-were-unscathed-by-earthquake\/"},"modified":"2015-05-13T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T12:00:00","slug":"nepal-s-living-goddess-devotees-were-unscathed-by-earthquake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2015\/05\/13\/nepal-s-living-goddess-devotees-were-unscathed-by-earthquake\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepal&#8217;s Living Goddess, Devotees were Unscathed by Earthquake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/world\/south-asia\/Nepals-living-goddess-devotees-were-unscathed-by-earthquake\/articleshow\/47135181.cms\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>KATHMANDU, NEPAL, May 3, 2015 (Times of India): If there is anything that last week&#8217;s earthquake hasn&#8217;t changed in the devastated Basantpur Durbar Square, it&#8217;s the daily worship of Kumari, Nepal&#8217;s living virgin Goddess. Even a week after the devastating 7.9-magnitude quake left much of Nepal in ruins with the toll nearing 7,000, her puja continues as usual at her abode, Kumari Ghar &#8212; a three-story architectural marvel which stands unharmed in the midst of the rubble of ancient temples and old palaces.<\/p>\n<p>Every morning, karmacharyas (Newar priests) from Taleju Temple arrive with offerings of flowers, akshata, dhup and samaya baji (typical Newari prasad). Kumari is worshipped as Taleju (Tulja in India), a form of Durga. &#8220;Kumari Ghar withstood the devastating earthquake because of Kumari&#8217;s powers,&#8221; said 48-year-old Gautam Shakya, an 11th generation caretaker of Kumari. At the time of the quake, Kumari was blessing her devotees on the first floor of the wood-and-brick house with intricate Newari carvings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source KATHMANDU, NEPAL, May 3, 2015 (Times of India): If there is anything that last week&#8217;s earthquake hasn&#8217;t changed in,&#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-14228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14228","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=14228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}