{"id":14747,"date":"2016-03-11T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2016\/03\/11\/police-stop-women-trying-to-enter-maharashtra-s-trimbakeshwar-temple\/"},"modified":"2016-03-11T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T12:00:00","slug":"police-stop-women-trying-to-enter-maharashtra-s-trimbakeshwar-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2016\/03\/11\/police-stop-women-trying-to-enter-maharashtra-s-trimbakeshwar-temple\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Stop Women Trying to Enter Maharashtra&#8217;s Trimbakeshwar Temple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/india\/police-stop-women-trying-to-enter-maharashtra-s-trimbakeshwar-temple\/story-UZPD2eHYX8sReSO8uX9mKK.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>INDIA, March 9, 2016 (Hindustan Times): Police detained a group of 40 women planning to break a centuries-old prohibition on the entry of female devotees into the sanctum sanctorum of the Trimbakeshwar temple in Mahrashtra&#8217;s Nashik district on Monday. The temple is located some 18 miles from Nashik and is a major Lord Shiva shrine, containing one of the 12 jyotirlingas.<\/p>\n<p>Marching under the Bhumata brigade banner, the women set off from Pune to enter the Shiva temple on Mahashivratri despite stiff resistance from the temple&#8217;s trustees and local villagers. The outfit was led by Trupti Desai, who made an attempt to breach an identical ban at the Shani Shingnapur temple in Mahrashtra&#8217;s Ahamednagar district on Republic Day but was stopped by police. This is the latest in a series of similar attempts across the country that has sparked a debate on religious traditions that bar female devotees from entering the inner chambers of shrines, sometimes for reasons of pollution.<\/p>\n<p>The political establishment has been dragged into the debate. &#8220;Our democratic set up allows everyone to put up their sides. When two sides disagree on certain things, the issue can be resolved by dialogue,&#8221; said Maharashtra finance minister Sudhir Mungantiwar, during his visit to Trimbakeshwar temple. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source INDIA, March 9, 2016 (Hindustan Times): Police detained a group of 40 women planning to break a centuries-old prohibition,&#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-14747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14747","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=14747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}