{"id":17973,"date":"2021-11-13T03:06:08","date_gmt":"2021-11-13T03:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/?p=17973"},"modified":"2021-11-13T03:06:09","modified_gmt":"2021-11-13T03:06:09","slug":"chennai-agama-scholar-recognized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2021\/11\/13\/chennai-agama-scholar-recognized\/","title":{"rendered":"Chennai Agama Scholar Recognized"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>MADURAI, INDIA, October 31, 2021 (dinamalar.com, translated from original Tamil): During the convocation ceremony of Skanda Guru Vidhyalayam, Thirupparankundram, Dr.Sabharathinam Sivachariar was conferred the title of Sakalakama Pandit [Expert in all Agamas]. The award was presented on that occasion by the head pontiff of Dharmapura Aadheenam. The award includes a cash purse handed over to the value of US$1,350. This was held in the presence of Raja Bhattar the head of the institution, the <meta charset=\"utf-8\">Karumuthu Kannan of Arulmigu Meenakshi Sundareshwarar temple and many Sivachariars and students. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>HPI Adds: Dr. Sabharathanam has worked with Kauai Aadheenam for many decades on translations of key Saiva Agamas and related scriptures. His translations to English may be found here: <a href=\"https:\/\/himalayanacademy.com\/site\/search\/tags\/agama\">https:\/\/himalayanacademy.com\/site\/search\/tags\/agama<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MADURAI, INDIA, October 31, 2021 (dinamalar.com, translated from original Tamil): During the convocation ceremony of Skanda Guru Vidhyalayam, Thirupparankundram, Dr.Sabharathinam,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17979,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17973","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17973"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17986,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17973\/revisions\/17986"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}