{"id":4110,"date":"2004-04-08T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-08T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/04\/08\/2004-04-08-mariamman-temple-goddess-receives-new-gold-kavasam-and-ornaments\/"},"modified":"2004-04-08T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-04-08T12:00:00","slug":"2004-04-08-mariamman-temple-goddess-receives-new-gold-kavasam-and-ornaments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/04\/08\/2004-04-08-mariamman-temple-goddess-receives-new-gold-kavasam-and-ornaments\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariamman Temple Goddess Receives New Gold Kavasam and Ornaments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/2004\/04\/01\/stories\/2004040105410300.htm\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>TAMIL NADU, INDIA, April 1, 2004: Thousands of devotees came to worship the Goddess, with new gold kavasam (decorative covering) and ornaments worth US$320,000, at Mariamman Temple near Thanjavur. The article explains, &#8220;Gold contributions by devotees and gold given by Rajaram Rajah Saheb, grandfather of Babaji Rajah Bhonsle were used for making the new kavasam and ornaments. Mr. Divakar contributed $4,000 for paying wages and other production cost of the kavasam and ornaments and T.S.Parthasarathy, an advocate, contributed $1,100 for polishing.&#8221; Several officials attended the ceremony where the kavasam and ornaments were taken out in procession and offered to the Goddess. Joint Commissioner, S. Ilango says, &#8220;On payment of $8.70, devotees could have a darshan of the Goddess with the new gold kavasam and ornaments.&#8221; <BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceTAMIL NADU, INDIA, April 1, 2004: Thousands of devotees came to worship the Goddess, with new gold kavasam (decorative covering),&#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-4110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4110","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=4110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}