{"id":5742,"date":"2005-12-02T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-02T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2005\/12\/02\/2005-12-02-hindu-festival-celebrated-in-kathmandu\/"},"modified":"2005-12-02T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-02T12:00:00","slug":"2005-12-02-hindu-festival-celebrated-in-kathmandu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2005\/12\/02\/2005-12-02-hindu-festival-celebrated-in-kathmandu\/","title":{"rendered":"Hindu Festival Celebrated in Kathmandu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/peacejournalism.com\/ReadArticle.asp?ArticleID=7222\">peacejournalism.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">KATHMANDU, NEPAL, November 30, 2005: A large crowd of devotees gathered Wednesday at Pasupatinath temple, one of the most important Hindu temples of Nepal, on the occasion of local Balachaturdasi festival, Radio Nepal reported. &#8220;The devotees came from across the country and gathered since early morning to mark the festival,&#8221; the radio said. Seeds of various grains are sown at 108 Shivalingams and temples praying for peace to the departed souls of one&#8217;s family members. Devotees sow seven types of seeds including paddy, barley, sesame, wheat, gram, maize and kaguno at the temple area, the radio noted, adding, &#8220;Seeds are sown with the belief that each grain sown amounts to a grain of gold given as alms from which the departed soul receives salvation.&#8221; Thousands of devotees lit oil fed lamps whole Tuesday night and chanted devotional hymns around the temple, which is one of the world&#8217;s heritage sites of Nepal, the radio noted.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>peacejournalism.com KATHMANDU, NEPAL, November 30, 2005: A large crowd of devotees gathered Wednesday at Pasupatinath temple, one of the most,&#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-5742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5742","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=5742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}