{"id":16258,"date":"2019-01-01T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2019\/01\/01\/coming-kumbh-mela-too-big-for-jumbos\/"},"modified":"2019-01-01T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-01T12:00:00","slug":"coming-kumbh-mela-too-big-for-jumbos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2019\/01\/01\/coming-kumbh-mela-too-big-for-jumbos\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming Kumbh Mela too Big for Jumbos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraphindia.com\/india\/vote-bank-kumbh-mela-too-big-for-jumbos\/cid\/1679895\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ALLAHABAD, INDIA, December 25, 2016 (Telegraph India): The Mela administration in Allahabad has banned the centuries-old elephant-and-horse processions during the Shahi Snan (royal bath) this Ardh Kumbh, scheduled from January 14 to March 4. The move has angered the sadhus who are determined to get the ban lifted. Riding elephants and horses, the monks &#8212; including naga (naked) sadhus &#8212; arrive at the Sangam, the confluence of the Ganga and the Yamuna, and take the holy dip after midnight. People from across the country visit the Kumbh and Ardh Kumbh not just to take the dip themselves but also to watch the spectacle of the Shahi Snan, held thrice during every Mela.<\/p>\n<p>A large number of sadhus walked out of a police-convened meeting on Sunday when K.P. Singh, the deputy inspector-general in charge of the Mela area, told them that elephants and horses wouldn&#8217;t be allowed in this time. &#8220;It&#8217;s a matter of safety,&#8221; Singh told reporters. &#8220;The procession of sadhus is scheduled to cross the pontoon bridges on the Ganga. It will be risky to allow the elephants and horses over the bridges. We&#8217;ll explain it to the sadhus again.&#8221; Till now the sadhus, emerging from the city akharas (monasteries belonging to the various Hindu sects), have always taken the holy dip from the city side of the riverbanks. All this construction will shrink the city side of the banks so much that it would no longer be able to host a mega event like the Shahi Snan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source ALLAHABAD, INDIA, December 25, 2016 (Telegraph India): The Mela administration in Allahabad has banned the centuries-old elephant-and-horse processions during,&#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-16258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16258","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=16258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}