{"id":5921,"date":"2006-02-25T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-25T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2006\/02\/25\/2006-02-25-kumbha-mela-dates-through-2016\/"},"modified":"2006-02-25T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-25T12:00:00","slug":"2006-02-25-kumbha-mela-dates-through-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2006\/02\/25\/2006-02-25-kumbha-mela-dates-through-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Kumbha Mela Dates Through 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\">HPI<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">NEW DELHI, INDIA, February 25, 2006: Pandit Ananda Shankar Vyas of Ujjain announces the following dates for the ardha (&#8220;half,&#8221; the sixth year between the main 12 year cycle) and purna (the 12th year event). He is a Vedic scholar, astrologer and priest of international repute. He was a member of the governing body of Mahakal temple in Ujjain and now serves as an honorary advisor to the temple&#8217;s governing body.<\/p>\n<p>Prayag (Allahabad): Ardha Kumbha, January 3, 2007 to February 2, 2007 with main bathing day on Friday, January 19.<\/p>\n<p>Haridwar: Purna Kumbha, March\/April, 2010, with main bathing day on April 14, Vaisakhi Amawas.<\/p>\n<p>Prayag: Purna Kumbha, the largest gathering of humans for any purpose on earth, January 27, 2013 to February 25. The main bathing day is mauni amawas, February 10.<\/p>\n<p>Nashik: Purna Kumbha, August 15, 2015 to September 13. Main bathing day is September 13. <\/p>\n<p>Ujjain: Purna Kumbha, April 22, 2016 to May 21. Main bathing day is May 21.<\/p>\n<p>Haridwar: Ardha Kumbha, April 14, 2016.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HPI NEW DELHI, INDIA, February 25, 2006: Pandit Ananda Shankar Vyas of Ujjain announces the following dates for the ardha,&#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-5921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5921","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=5921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}