{"id":2947,"date":"2003-03-26T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-03-26T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/03\/26\/2003-03-26-nepalese-hindu-monarchs-worship-at-meenakshi-temple\/"},"modified":"2003-03-26T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-03-26T12:00:00","slug":"2003-03-26-nepalese-hindu-monarchs-worship-at-meenakshi-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/03\/26\/2003-03-26-nepalese-hindu-monarchs-worship-at-meenakshi-temple\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepalese Hindu Monarchs Worship at Meenakshi Temple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/news\/181_220453,000900020001.htm\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>MADURAI, INDIA, March 24, 2003: Nepal King Gyanendra and Queen Komal Rajalakshmi Devi offered prayers and had &#8220;archana&#8221; at the Sri Meenakshi Amman-Sundareswar temple in Madurai on Monday. The King and his entourage, accompanied by the officials from the External Affairs ministry, were given a traditional welcome by folk dancers at the entrance of the temple. Later they were received by the temple priests with &#8220;Poornakumbha Mariadai&#8221; at the temple&#8217;s south Gopuram. Goddess Meenakshi, the temple&#8217;s main deity, was bedecked with the diamond crown, traditionally worn only three times a year. The King spent about an hour going around the temple where his majesty was presented with a silk shawl, books on temple history, and prasadam near the temple&#8217;s Golden chariot, where the King and Queen were seated.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE MADURAI, INDIA, March 24, 2003: Nepal King Gyanendra and Queen Komal Rajalakshmi Devi offered prayers and had,&#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-2947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2947","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=2947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}