{"id":3631,"date":"2003-10-22T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-22T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/10\/22\/2003-10-22-ujjain-mela-is-major-one-of-twelve-year-cycle\/"},"modified":"2003-10-22T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-10-22T12:00:00","slug":"2003-10-22-ujjain-mela-is-major-one-of-twelve-year-cycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/10\/22\/2003-10-22-ujjain-mela-is-major-one-of-twelve-year-cycle\/","title":{"rendered":"Ujjain Mela is Major One of Twelve-Year Cycle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hinduism Today<\/P><P>DELHI, INDIA, October 17, 2003: At the request of a reader for clarity on the upcoming Kumbha Mela in Ujjain, our Delhi correspondent, Mr. Rajiv Malik, writes that according to information from the Madhya Pradesh government, this is the twelve-year mela, known as Simhastha Kumbha 2004. The question arises because the Melas at other sites, particularly Prayag, are attracting big crowds even on the third-year cycles between the 12 year one. According to our sources, the main bathing dates at Ujjain are April 5, 19, 22, 24 &#038; May 4. May 4 is the day of the new moon and is the Shahi Snan, the most important bath.<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hinduism TodayDELHI, INDIA, October 17, 2003: At the request of a reader for clarity on the upcoming Kumbha Mela in,&#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-3631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3631","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=3631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}