{"id":15922,"date":"2018-03-12T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2018\/03\/12\/at-vadapalani-temple-priests-get-trained-in-nuances-of-agamas\/"},"modified":"2018-03-12T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T12:00:00","slug":"at-vadapalani-temple-priests-get-trained-in-nuances-of-agamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2018\/03\/12\/at-vadapalani-temple-priests-get-trained-in-nuances-of-agamas\/","title":{"rendered":"At Vadapalani Temple, Priests Get Trained in Nuances of Agamas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/cities\/chennai\/at-vadapalani-temple-priests-get-trained-in-nuances-of-agamas\/article23042753.ece\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>CHENNAI, INDIA, March 12, 2018 (The Hindu): Kapali Vaidhyanatha Gurukkal, an Agama expert and an archaka at the Sri Kapaleeswarar Temple is conducting a course for 50 priests archakas attached to other Saivaite temples. Based on a curriculum approved by the Department, he fits in astrology, Agamas, tales from the puranas, slokas used in various rituals, and rules pertaining to repair and renovation of temples. &#8220;We fixed a curriculum for five years where every year, the subjects would change. Last year we taught them about how a temple should be constructed, beginning with the bhumi puja.&#8221; This year, the focus is on installation of murthis and performing kumbabhishekam, explained an official source in the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source CHENNAI, INDIA, March 12, 2018 (The Hindu): Kapali Vaidhyanatha Gurukkal, an Agama expert and an archaka at the Sri,&#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-15922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15922","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=15922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}