{"id":6247,"date":"2007-08-26T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-26T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2007\/08\/26\/kerala-government-considers-university-to-train-hindu-priests\/"},"modified":"2007-08-26T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-26T12:00:00","slug":"kerala-government-considers-university-to-train-hindu-priests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2007\/08\/26\/kerala-government-considers-university-to-train-hindu-priests\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerala Government Considers University to Train Hindu Priests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/hindustantimes.com\/StoryPage\/StoryPage.aspx?id=fef9ce21-09b8-4031-ac32-eaaf050b6d03&#038;&#038;Headline=University+to+teach+rituals+to+priests+in+Kerala\">hindustantimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, INDIA, August 19, 2007: The Kerala state government is considering setting up a university to train Hindu priests and others associated with conducting rituals in temples. This has been proposed by State Temple Affairs Minister, G. Sudhaskaran, to the Travancore Devasthanam Board. &#8220;It is high time to teach priests how to conduct rituals to the satisfaction of devotees. They don&#8217;t know the basics of the religion and what the rituals and mantras are all about. They have little knowledge of Sanskrit too,&#8221; the Minister said.<\/p>\n<p>An autonomous body, the Travancore Devasthanam Board, runs around 1,200 temples in southern Kerala, including the famed hill shrine of Sabarimala. The board is currently under a probe panel, which is headed by a former Supreme Court judge, for alleged corruption and malpractices. The minister also said that the government could bring in legislation to set up the university in consultation with Hindu scholars.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>hindustantimes.com THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, INDIA, August 19, 2007: The Kerala state government is considering setting up a university to train Hindu priests,&#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-6247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6247","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=6247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}