{"id":7687,"date":"2009-05-04T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/05\/04\/bad-omens-for-nepal-s-new-government\/"},"modified":"2009-05-04T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-04T12:00:00","slug":"bad-omens-for-nepal-s-new-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/05\/04\/bad-omens-for-nepal-s-new-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Omens For Nepal&#8217;s New Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/religion.info\/english\/articles\/article_421.shtml\">religion.info<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">KATHMANDU, NEPAL, May 4, 2009:  When King Gyanendra&#8217;s army-backed reign ended three years ago followed by the abolition of monarchy in the world&#8217;s only Hindu kingdom, it did not come as a surprise to the Himalayan nation&#8217;s devout Hindus. &#8220;It was on the charts,&#8221; says Upendra Dahal, a Brahmin priest who also dabbles in astrology at the revered Pashupatinath temple in Kathmandu. &#8220;The Gods were against him and sent him omens.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>There were several omens. An annual procession during which the Kumari was disrupted after an axle broke; a second chariot procession for  Rato Machhindranath, God of rains, was halted; a famous deity, Bhimsen, began to sweat in a Kathmandu temple. The people of Nepal took these signs to heart.  <\/p>\n<p>Now a year after the exit of the king and his former arch enemies, the Maoist guerrillas, there are fresh divine rumblings. On Sunday, the procession of Rato Machhindranath came to a standstill once again as the immense chariot almost keeled over.<\/p>\n<p>As the spectre of a no-trust vote and a humiliating defeat hangs over the Maoist government, people are also talking of the former rebels&#8217; professed disdain for religion.<\/p>\n<p>In the Sunsari district in southern Nepal, which was hit by major floods last year, discontent is visible. &#8220;The prime minister took the oath of office in the name of people and not god,&#8221; a villager said. &#8220;It was his disbelief that angered the Gods and caused the flood.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>religion.info KATHMANDU, NEPAL, May 4, 2009: When King Gyanendra&#8217;s army-backed reign ended three years ago followed by the abolition of,&#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-7687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7687","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=7687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}