{"id":14468,"date":"2015-09-19T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-19T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2015\/09\/19\/ancient-ganesha-statue-finds-new-home-in-adelaide-zoo\/"},"modified":"2015-09-19T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-19T12:00:00","slug":"ancient-ganesha-statue-finds-new-home-in-adelaide-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2015\/09\/19\/ancient-ganesha-statue-finds-new-home-in-adelaide-zoo\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Ganesha Statue Finds New Home in Adelaide Zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.siasat.com\/news\/ancient-ganesha-statue-finds-new-home-adelaide-zoo-837800\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA, September 17, 2015 (Siasat Daily): Ganesh Chaturthi was celebrated in a unique way in the South Australian capital of Adelaide, where a neglected ancient statue of Lord Ganesha found its new home in a makeshift temple in the zoo. The statue was spotted by a local member of the Hindu community, and was later established in a makeshift temple with the support of the Adelaide Zoo Authority.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, the zoo authorities were astounded by the significance attached to the statue by Hindus. &#8220;We had no idea that this statue is so important to Hindus. We have no idea how it came here. I have been working at this zoo for over 35 years and it (the statue of Lord Ganesha) could be around 40-50 years old,&#8221; said Jeff Lugg, General Manager, Operations, Adelaide Zoo.<\/p>\n<p>Chirag Trivedi of the Hindu Social and Welfare Council of SA took upon his shoulders to connect with the archaeology department. &#8220;When I approached the archaeology Department of Flinders University of South Australia, I was surprised at the findings. The statue that was left neglected, was a contemporary Balinese copy of Javanese ingasari \/ Majapahit period, probably of a well-known 13th century Javanese Boro Ganesa statue in Blitar, East Java. It was a serious matter now, not just about faith and religion but also about history,&#8221; said Trivedi. The zoo authorities, recognizing the importance, graciously allowed to mount the statue over a raised platform with a protecting dome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA, September 17, 2015 (Siasat Daily): Ganesh Chaturthi was celebrated in a unique way in the South Australian,&#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-14468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14468","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=14468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}