{"id":1184,"date":"2020-03-17T13:42:01","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T08:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-global-press.pantheonsite.io\/?p=1184"},"modified":"2020-03-17T13:42:01","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T08:12:01","slug":"devotees-banned-from-bhasmaarti-ritual-at-ujjains-mahakal-temple-covid-19-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=1184","title":{"rendered":"Devotees banned from Bhasmaarti ritual at Ujjain&#039;s Mahakal Temple: COVID-19 updates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> INDORE: Ujjain&#8217;s Mahakal temple committee on Monday banned the entry of devotees in Bhasmaarti ritual and the sanctum sanctorium  in a bid to prevent possible <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/indore\/covid-19-scare-devotees-banned-from-bhasmaarti-ritual-at-ujjains-mahakal-temple\/articleshow\/74657338.cms\">Covid-19 spread.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p> Directives to this effect were issued by the temple committee during its meeting held to review operations to prevent the  spread of the deadly disease.<\/p>\n\n\n<p> However the temple priests will continue performing the Bhasmaarti ritual as per schedule. <\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-background has-cyan-bluish-gray-color has-very-light-gray-background-color\">Image Source: Wikipedia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INDORE: Ujjain&#8217;s Mahakal temple committee on Monday banned the entry of devotees in Bhasmaarti ritual and the sanctum sanctorium in a bid to prevent possible Covid-19 spread. Directives to this effect were issued by the temple committee during its meeting held to review operations to prevent the spread of the deadly disease. However the temple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[291,292],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184"}],"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\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}