{"id":9659,"date":"2010-10-18T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-18T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/10\/18\/the-delights-of-worshipping-sri-sarasvati\/"},"modified":"2010-10-18T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-18T12:00:00","slug":"the-delights-of-worshipping-sri-sarasvati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/10\/18\/the-delights-of-worshipping-sri-sarasvati\/","title":{"rendered":"The Delights of Worshipping Sri Sarasvati"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hindu.com\/2010\/10\/16\/stories\/2010101662660500.htm\">www.hindu.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>VISAKHAPATNAM, INDIA, October 16, 2010: Reciting or reading 24,000 slokas in Valmiki Ramayana might take a few weeks or months, but writing them on Palmyra Leaves within six months is no mean task.<\/p>\n<p>This treasure of &#8216;Ramayana on Talapatra&#8217;, about 200-years-old, is one of the books on display at the domestic ritual of entreating Goddess Saraswati by Sanskrit scholar Vedula Subrahmanya Sastri.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have many occasions in a year to remember the Gods and Goddesses, festivals to ensure we concentrated our thoughts on self-discipline, adhering to Dharma &#8212; a word that has no parallel in other country or religion,&#8221; he observed. A tradition followed for centuries, to perform a Saraswati Puja using as a murti all books available in the house, continues religiously in this scholar&#8217;s house with the help of his granddaughter.<\/p>\n<p>Most attractive among the books are &#8217;12 Talapatra grandhalu&#8217;, which has been in the family for a long time, with a tale. &#8220;The condition for my great-grandfather&#8217;s marriage was a gift of Valmiki Ramayana was completed in six months flat,&#8221; he recounts.<\/p>\n<p>Penance is an essential part of Hindu Dharma, and in the case of Goddess Sarasvati means also improving concentration towards studies for children and the grown-up alike, the retired professor from Andhra University Sastri told The Hindu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.hindu.com VISAKHAPATNAM, INDIA, October 16, 2010: Reciting or reading 24,000 slokas in Valmiki Ramayana might take a few weeks,&#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-9659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9659","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=9659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}