{"id":107269,"date":"2017-09-24T15:00:35","date_gmt":"2017-09-24T09:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=107269"},"modified":"2017-09-24T15:00:35","modified_gmt":"2017-09-24T09:30:35","slug":"women-not-allowed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/women-not-allowed\/","title":{"rendered":"Here women not allowed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At a time when Goddess Durga is worshipped with full fervour, the annual event coming to symbolise women\u2019s power in popular perception, there is a temple in Bihar dedicated to the deity to which women are not allowed entry during the Navaratras.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The deity is known widely as Aashapuri, meaning the one who fulfils all the wishes of devotees, and is visited by thousands of devotees throughout the year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-107270 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Maa-Aashapuri-Temple-Ghosrava.jpg\" alt=\"Nayan's Shocking Role in Sye Raa?\" width=\"384\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But such is its tradition that women are not allowed on the temple premises, leave alone its sanctum sanctorum, during the nine-day period of Durga worship.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe follow a purely Taantrik style of puja during Navaratra, of which women cannot be a part,\u201d said Purendra Upadhyay, one of the priests of the temple.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIt\u2019s an old tradition and people do not want to defy it as it is believed that the violation of this rule may put a divine curse over the village and its people,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a time when Goddess Durga is worshipped with full fervour, the annual event coming to symbolise women\u2019s power in popular perception, there is a temple in Bihar dedicated to the deity to which women are not allowed entry during the Navaratras. The deity is known widely as Aashapuri, meaning the one who fulfils all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107271,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[485,1258,10603,54511,2310,1248,664,1223,1375,9349,52502,113,5444],"class_list":["post-107269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-amitabh-bachchan","tag-director","tag-jagapati-babu","tag-konidela-production-company-banner","tag-megastar-chiranjeevi","tag-nayantara","tag-nayanthara","tag-pragya-jaiswal","tag-ram-charan","tag-surender-reddy","tag-sye-raa-narasimha-reddy","tag-tollywood","tag-upcoming-movie"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Teej-3.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}