{"id":5019,"date":"2005-02-06T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-06T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2005\/02\/06\/2005-02-06-jagannath-temple-uses-365-different-rice-varities-for-offerings\/"},"modified":"2005-02-06T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-06T12:00:00","slug":"2005-02-06-jagannath-temple-uses-365-different-rice-varities-for-offerings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2005\/02\/06\/2005-02-06-jagannath-temple-uses-365-different-rice-varities-for-offerings\/","title":{"rendered":"Jagannath Temple Uses 365 Different Rice Varities for Offerings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/autofeed.msn.co.in\/pandorav3\/output\/News\/cd0fa397-864a-4899-9c93-030e3e607b97.aspx\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>LUCKNOW, INDIA, February 4, 2005: Did you know that development of newer rice varieties was to meet the needs of Orissa&#8217;s famous Jagannath temple that uses a different variety for its rituals every day? Or that a sandalwood-turmeric tika originates in the belief that it will soothe the mind? Giving various instances to stress that most rituals have a scientific background were delegates at a workshop at the National Botanical Research Institute (NBRI) here. Referring to the Jagannath temple in Orissa&#8217;s Puri town using different rice each of the 365 days a year, Sri Lankan botanist Balkrishna Pashupati said: &#8220;I have sufficient reason to believe that many varieties of rice were developed essentially to fulfil the daily ritual at the famous temple.&#8221; &#8220;And that was the reason a large number of villages in Orissa and around specialized in producing at least one of these varieties of rice,&#8221; he told a workshop on biodiversity research.<BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceLUCKNOW, INDIA, February 4, 2005: Did you know that development of newer rice varieties was to meet the needs of,&#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-5019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5019","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=5019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}