{"id":7423,"date":"2009-01-28T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-28T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/01\/28\/minister-orders-pujas-to-protect-against-eclipse\/"},"modified":"2009-01-28T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-28T12:00:00","slug":"minister-orders-pujas-to-protect-against-eclipse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/01\/28\/minister-orders-pujas-to-protect-against-eclipse\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister Orders Pujas to Protect Against Eclipse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/2009\/01\/27\/stories\/2009012755061300.htm\">www.thehindu.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">BANGALORE, INDIA, January 27, 2009: Following the recommendations of Agamic scholars, all temples in Karnataka were directed to perform special pujas or religious rituals immediately after Monday&#8217;s solar eclipse, which occurred on Republic Day.<\/p>\n<p>A circular issued by Muzrai and Housing Minister B.N. Krishnaiah Shetty ordered this precaution to ensure the safety of the people and the general good of the State.  Shetty explained that &#8220;the position of stars is not auspicious&#8221; for the State. &#8220;Big temples in towns perform pujas. The circular will ensure that it is done in smaller villages also.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Money for the pujas came from the money donated directly to each temple by its devotees, and not any special allocation made by the government.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.thehindu.com BANGALORE, INDIA, January 27, 2009: Following the recommendations of Agamic scholars, all temples in Karnataka were directed to perform,&#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-7423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7423","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=7423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}