{"id":7085,"date":"2008-10-02T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-02T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/10\/02\/maoists-appoint-new-living-goddess\/"},"modified":"2008-10-02T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-02T12:00:00","slug":"maoists-appoint-new-living-goddess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/10\/02\/maoists-appoint-new-living-goddess\/","title":{"rendered":"Maoists Appoint New Living Goddess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/7642798.stm\">news.bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">BHAKTAPUR, NEPAL, September 29, 2008: The state-run Trust Corporation, authorized by Nepal&#8217;s new Maoist-led government, has selected six-year-old Shreeya Bajracharya to fulfill the role of Kumari (&#8220;living goddess&#8221;) in the temple town of Bhaktapur.<\/p>\n<p>Always before, Kumaris have been appointed by the royal high priest; but the monarchy was abolished after the Maoists, who are atheists, won elections earlier this year. Still, the Nepalese honor their Kumari tradition. <\/p>\n<p>Kumaris must pass ritual tests and have 32 beautiful physical attributes. Shreeya, a farmer&#8217;s daughter who wishes to become a nurse when she is older, was chosen in part for her lovely voice and eyelashes.<\/p>\n<p>Worshipped by both Buddhists and Hindus, Kumaris live lives of extreme privilege, but are isolated in a special house. They retire at the onset of menstruation, which is deemed to make them human. After complaints that the girls are unable to have a normal life, the Supreme Court last month ordered the government to safeguard the human rights of Kumaris.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>news.bbc.co.uk BHAKTAPUR, NEPAL, September 29, 2008: The state-run Trust Corporation, authorized by Nepal&#8217;s new Maoist-led government, has selected six-year-old Shreeya,&#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-7085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7085","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=7085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}