{"id":9097,"date":"2010-05-24T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/05\/24\/12-year-old-girl-to-conduct-deity-installation\/"},"modified":"2010-05-24T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T12:00:00","slug":"12-year-old-girl-to-conduct-deity-installation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/05\/24\/12-year-old-girl-to-conduct-deity-installation\/","title":{"rendered":"12-Year-Old Girl To Conduct Deity Installation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/expressbuzz.com\/states\/kerala\/12-year-old-girl-to-conduct-Deity-installation\/175654.html \">expressbuzz.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, KERALA, INDIA, May 23, 2010: Jyotsna Padmanabhan, a 12-year-old girl, is all set to script history by being the first female in Kerala to conduct a Deity installation in accordance with tantric rituals. The girl&#8217;s entry into the sanctum sanctorum of the Paikunikavu Sri Krishna Temple at Kattoor near Irinjalakuda on Sunday to conduct the prathishta of Goddess Bhadrakali will mark a new chapter in the religious history of Kerala as there is no precedent of a woman, other than a spiritual leader, conducting a Deity installation.<\/p>\n<p>Jyotsna, a seventh-standard student, belongs to Tharanallur Mana, one of the two Tantri families in Kerala. Born and brought up in the world of temples and poojas, she has developed a keen interest in tantric rituals and started learning under Tharanallur Padmanabhan Namboothiripad, the tantri of many renowned temples including Sree Rama Temple in Thriprayar and Koodalmanikyam temple in Irinjalakuda.<\/p>\n<p>Jyotsna&#8217;s father Padmanabhan Namboothiripad said the move was not meant to create any controversy, rather to say that the tantric Hinduism did not ban women from performing rites. &#8220;Tantric science says that women are ideal to perform these rites. Problem is with the ritual and practices. Rituals are bound to change in the course of time,&#8221; he said. He said he was guiding his daughter in the path of truth and teaching her the best science known to him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: expressbuzz.com THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, KERALA, INDIA, May 23, 2010: Jyotsna Padmanabhan, a 12-year-old girl, is all set to script history by,&#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-9097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9097","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=9097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}