{"id":1161,"date":"2016-02-03T05:00:15","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T05:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org?p=1158&amp;preview_id=1158"},"modified":"2016-02-03T05:00:15","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T05:00:15","slug":"festival-kicks-off-month-of-fasting-in-nepal-the-straits-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=1161","title":{"rendered":"Festival kicks off month of fasting in Nepal &#8211; The Straits Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Nepalese Hindu women dressed in red collecting holy water during the Madhav Narayan Festival on Monday at Salinadi river in Sankhu near Kathmandu, Nepal.<\/p>\n<p>The festival marked the start of a month devoted to religious fasting, holy bathing and the study of the Swasthani book, a chapter or story of which is read each evening at family gatherings.<\/p>\n<p>More than 220 married and unmarried women and dozens of male devotees started their fast for peace and a better life at temple premises.<\/p>\n<p>Unmarried women fast to get a good husband, and married women for their families&#8217; prosperity. The festival is dedicated to Lord Shiva, the god of creation and destruction.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/asia\/south-asia\/festival-kicks-off-month-of-fasting-in-nepal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Festival kicks off month of fasting in Nepal \u2013 The Straits Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nepalese Hindu women dressed in red collecting holy water during the Madhav Narayan Festival on Monday at Salinadi river in Sankhu near Kathmandu, Nepal. The festival marked the start of a month devoted to religious fasting, holy bathing and the study of the Swasthani book, a chapter or story of which is read each evening [&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":[1159],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161"}],"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=1161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}