{"id":2950,"date":"2003-03-27T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-03-27T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/03\/27\/2003-03-27-nepal-s-hindu-monarch-mixes-pilgrimage-and-state-business\/"},"modified":"2003-03-27T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-03-27T12:00:00","slug":"2003-03-27-nepal-s-hindu-monarch-mixes-pilgrimage-and-state-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/03\/27\/2003-03-27-nepal-s-hindu-monarch-mixes-pilgrimage-and-state-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepal&#8217;s Hindu Monarch Mixes Pilgrimage and State Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: HPI<\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>KATHMANDU, NEPAL, March 22, 2003: King Gyanendra and Queen Komal of Nepal began an 11-day Indian pilgrimage last Thursday, visiting a number of Hindu shrines in southern India. This is King Gyanendra&#8217;s first religious trip abroad. H. H. Sankaracharya Jayendra Saraswati of Kanchipuram invited the world&#8217;s only Hindu monarch to a festival of kotihom (sacred fire) and the royal couple is visiting temples, some of which have a tradition of extending the King of Nepal privileged access to the inner sanctum, an area normally restricted to the priests. King Gyanendra&#8217;s itinerary began in New Delhi, where he met President Kalam, Prime Minister Vajpayee and other Indian leaders.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: HPI KATHMANDU, NEPAL, March 22, 2003: King Gyanendra and Queen Komal of Nepal began an 11-day Indian pilgrimage last,&#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-2950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2950","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=2950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}