{"id":111746,"date":"2018-01-30T19:50:03","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T14:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org\/?p=111746"},"modified":"2018-01-30T19:50:03","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T14:20:03","slug":"vedapureeswarar-temple-consecrated-19-years-hindu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=111746","title":{"rendered":"Vedapureeswarar Temple consecrated after 19 years | The Hindu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A large number of devotees witnessed the \u2018mahakumbabhishekam\u2019 of the nearly 600-year-old Sri Vedapureeswarar Temple after a gap of 19 years on Sunday. After preliminary pujas and dravya homam, holy water meant for the \u2018mahakumbabhishekam\u2019 was taken in a procession around the temple by the priests.<\/p>\n<p>Pujas, mantras<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018kumbabhishekam\u2019 was performed to the Raja Gopuram and other gopurams simultaneously. Vedic pundits conducted the special pujas and chanted mantras to the accompaniment of nagaswaram.<\/p>\n<p>Police had made elaborate security arrangements for the consecration.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Minister V. Narayanasamy, PWD Minister A. Namassivayam and Parliamentary Secretary to Chief Minister K. Lakshminarayanan offered worship on the occasion.<\/p>\n<p>The renovation work of the nearly 600-year-old temple was taken up in 2013 with a budget of \u20b96 crore. The previous consecration was performed in 1999.<\/p>\n<p>According to an official in the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Department, the presiding deity is a \u2018swayambu lingam\u2019 and was shifted to the present temple 100 years ago. The temple was rebuilt in 1788 funded by Dubash Kandappa Mudaliar with public support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A large number of devotees witnessed the \u2018mahakumbabhishekam\u2019 of the nearly 600-year-old Sri Vedapureeswarar Temple after a gap of 19 years on Sunday. After preliminary pujas and dravya homam, holy water meant for the \u2018mahakumbabhishekam\u2019 was taken in a procession around the temple by the priests. Pujas, mantras The \u2018kumbabhishekam\u2019 was performed to the Raja [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111746"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}