{"id":16020,"date":"2016-08-15T13:35:26","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T08:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org?p=16017&amp;preview_id=16017"},"modified":"2016-08-15T13:35:26","modified_gmt":"2016-08-15T08:05:26","slug":"all-you-need-to-know-about-krishna-pushkaram-river-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=16020","title":{"rendered":"All you need to know about Krishna Pushkaram river festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>This year, the sacred 12 days festival of Krishna Pushkaralu begins on 12 August 2016 till 23 August 2016 in Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rel bg2 pt2 photo-h\" data-id=\"ph-17312\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsnation1.s3.amazonaws.com\/images\/photos\/big\/1731_crowd_4867.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" td-modal-image alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/newsnation1.s3.amazonaws.com\/images\/photos\/big\/1731_crowd_4867.jpg\" width=\"647\" height=\"362\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Large crowds of visitors, tourists, saints, and priests are expected to attend the festival with great enthusiasm and thankfulness to our mother nature.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rel bg2 pt2 photo-h\" data-id=\"ph-17313\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsnation1.s3.amazonaws.com\/images\/photos\/big\/1731_pic_4965.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" td-modal-image alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/newsnation1.s3.amazonaws.com\/images\/photos\/big\/1731_pic_4965.jpg\" width=\"647\" height=\"429\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As per the legend, there lived a Brahmin in a village. He did severe penance towards Lord Shiva. As a result of it, Lord Shiva granted a boon because of which he was blessed with a power to purify the holy rivers. Thenceforth he was known as Pushkar (the one who nourishes).<\/p>\n<div class=\"rel bg2 pt2 photo-h\" data-id=\"ph-17314\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsnation1.s3.amazonaws.com\/images\/photos\/big\/1731_jupiter_5452.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" td-modal-image alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/newsnation1.s3.amazonaws.com\/images\/photos\/big\/1731_jupiter_5452.jpg\" width=\"630\" height=\"390\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While traveling from one zodiac sign to another, Brihaspati aka Jupiter requested Pushkar to make the 12 sacred rivers holy. Various pujas and rituals were performed during the Pushkaralu.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rel bg2 pt2 photo-h\" data-id=\"ph-17315\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsnation1.s3.amazonaws.com\/images\/photos\/big\/1731_last_5542.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" td-modal-image alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/newsnation1.s3.amazonaws.com\/images\/photos\/big\/1731_last_5542.jpg\" width=\"647\" height=\"485\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The festival lasts as long as Jupiter remains in the corresponding zodiac sign.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year, the sacred 12 days festival of Krishna Pushkaralu begins on 12 August 2016 till 23 August 2016 in Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. &nbsp; Large crowds of visitors, tourists, saints, and priests are expected to attend the festival with great enthusiasm and thankfulness to our mother nature. &nbsp; As per the legend, there [&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\/16020"}],"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=16020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}