{"id":2832,"date":"2003-02-10T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-02-10T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/02\/10\/2003-02-10-rajasthan-may-ban-hindu-trident\/"},"modified":"2003-02-10T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-02-10T12:00:00","slug":"2003-02-10-rajasthan-may-ban-hindu-trident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/02\/10\/2003-02-10-rajasthan-may-ban-hindu-trident\/","title":{"rendered":"Rajasthan May Ban Hindu Trident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/2743881.stm\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>RAJASTHAN, INDIA, February 10, 2003: The Indian state of Rajasthan plans to introduce a ban on Hindus carrying a traditional religious icon, the trident. The three-pointed spear, or trisula, appears in Hindu iconography and traditionally symbolizes the power of Lord Siva as three fundamental saktis or powers &#8212; iccha (desire, will, love), kriya (action) and jnana (wisdom). Hindu activists say they have distributed more than 70,000 tridents in Rajasthan in recent months. A sharpened trident can serve as a weapon, though its relevance here is more as a symbol of aggressive Hinduism to be displayed in marches and at rallies. Rajasthan&#8217;s Home Minister, Gulab Singh Shaktawat, told the BBC the trident could endanger the lives of peace-loving citizens. He said he expected the trident ban to be introduced this week.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE RAJASTHAN, INDIA, February 10, 2003: The Indian state of Rajasthan plans to introduce a ban on Hindus,&#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-2832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2832","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=2832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}