{"id":21233,"date":"2024-08-15T03:38:36","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T03:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/?p=21233"},"modified":"2024-08-15T03:38:37","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T03:38:37","slug":"ganga-water-enters-bade-hanuman-temple-in-prayagraj-risk-to-low-lying-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2024\/08\/15\/ganga-water-enters-bade-hanuman-temple-in-prayagraj-risk-to-low-lying-areas\/","title":{"rendered":"Ganga Water Enters Bade Hanuman Temple in Prayagraj; Risk to Low Lying Areas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>PRAYAGRAJ, INDIA August 8, 2024 (Hindustan Times): The much awaited annual occurrence of the Ganga entering the Bade Hanuman Temple during the monsoons took place in Sangam City on Wednesday morning. As the river water entered the premises of the temple, devotees started chanting slogans in praise of Lord Hanuman and Maa Ganga. The temple\u2019s head Mahant Balbir Giri said \u201cAfter the flood water entered the temple, we performed Ganga Aarti followed by abhishek of both Goddess Ganga and Lord Hanuman. Later, we took a small statue of Hanuman and after touching it to the large statue, it  is placed above the temple and all rituals would now be performed on it right till the flood water recedes.\u201d \u201cAfter performing arti of Lord Hanuman, the main channel of the temple has now been closed as per the tradition,\u201d he added. Meanwhile, as the news of water of Sangam and Ganga entering the temple spread in the city, a large number of devotees rushed to the area to catch a glimpse of the holy event.<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/cities\/others\/ganga-water-enters-bade-hanuman-temple-in-prayagraj-risk-to-low-lying-areas-101723058503543.html\n\">https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/cities\/others\/ganga-water-enters-bade-hanuman-temple-in-prayagraj-risk-to-low-lying-areas-101723058503543.html<br><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PRAYAGRAJ, INDIA August 8, 2024 (Hindustan Times): The much awaited annual occurrence of the Ganga entering the Bade Hanuman Temple,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21241,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21233","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\/21233","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=21233"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21242,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21233\/revisions\/21242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}