{"id":7342,"date":"2008-12-31T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-31T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/12\/31\/nepalese-protest-change-of-priests-at-pashupatinath\/"},"modified":"2008-12-31T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-31T12:00:00","slug":"nepalese-protest-change-of-priests-at-pashupatinath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/12\/31\/nepalese-protest-change-of-priests-at-pashupatinath\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepalese Protest Change of Priests at Pashupatinath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/articleshow\/msid-3912870,prtpage-1.cms\">timesofindia.indiatimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">KATHMANDU, NEPAL, December 30, 2008: The government&#8217;s decision to sack South Indian priests from the Pashupatinath Temple in the capital has sparked a row in Nepal, with the main Opposition party accusing the Maoists of hurting &#8220;the religious sentiments&#8221; of the Hindus in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The Nepali Congess, the second largest party in the country, has raised serious objections on the Maoist-led government&#8217;s move to remove South Indian Brahmins from capital&#8217;s famous Pashupatinath Temple, one of the eight holiest Hindu shrines, and appointing local priests in their place.<\/p>\n<p>Nepali Congress (NC) alleged that it was done in a hurry without going through proper process and formalities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The way Maoist government replaced the priests serving at the Pashupatinath Temple without fulfilling any formality has hurt the religious sentiments of the Hindu people of Nepal,&#8221; said NC chief Laxman Ghimire in the Parliament yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>[HPI note: These priests are Saiva Brahmins from Koteswaram in Kundapura Taluk, Karnataka&#8217;s western coast about 100 km from Mangalore.] <\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>timesofindia.indiatimes.com KATHMANDU, NEPAL, December 30, 2008: The government&#8217;s decision to sack South Indian priests from the Pashupatinath Temple in the,&#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-7342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7342","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=7342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}