{"id":129020,"date":"2018-02-12T09:37:35","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T04:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=129020"},"modified":"2018-02-12T09:40:52","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T04:10:52","slug":"lakhs-coming-for-bahubali-abhisheka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/lakhs-coming-for-bahubali-abhisheka\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakhs coming for Bahubali abhisheka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lakhs of devotees from all over the country and abroad are expected to gather at Shravanabelagola, the Jain pilgrimage centre, next month for Lord Bahubali&#8217;s &#8216;Mahamastakabhisheka&#8217;, a once in 12-year ritual.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/mahamastakabhisheka-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-129025\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/mahamastakabhisheka-1.jpg\" alt=\"mahamastakabhisheka\" width=\"552\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/mahamastakabhisheka-1.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/mahamastakabhisheka-1-768x521.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 552px) 100vw, 552px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ceremony, believed by some to be one of the most thrilling spectacles of worship in the world, is scheduled to take place between February 17 and 26.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 57 ft-high statue of Lord Bahubali, the son of the first Jain tirthankara, was carved from a single rock by Chamundaraya, who was the Ganga Dynasty&#8217;s minister and commander, in 981 AD.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Mahamastakabhisheka (head anointment) ceremony has been regularly performed every 12 years since then, much like the Kumbh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lakhs of devotees from all over the country and abroad are expected to gather at Shravanabelagola, the Jain pilgrimage centre, next month for Lord Bahubali&#8217;s &#8216;Mahamastakabhisheka&#8217;, a once in 12-year ritual. The ceremony, believed by some to be one of the most thrilling spectacles of worship in the world, is scheduled to take place between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129021,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[65938,363,65941,65937,65939,65940],"class_list":["post-129020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-chamundaraya","tag-devotees","tag-jain-pilgrimage-centre","tag-lord-bahubali","tag-mahamastakabhisheka","tag-shravanabelagola"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Shravanabelagola-Bahubali-.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129020","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=129020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}