{"id":1837,"date":"2020-03-25T14:40:21","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T09:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-global-press.pantheonsite.io\/?p=1837"},"modified":"2020-03-25T14:40:21","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T09:10:21","slug":"lord-balaji-temple-undergoes-cleansing-ritual-ahead-of-ugadi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=1837","title":{"rendered":"Lord Balaji temple undergoes cleansing ritual ahead of Ugadi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-background has-cyan-bluish-gray-color has-very-light-gray-background-color\"> Ugadi Asthanam&#8217; will be performed on Tuesday in the presence of very few people. After the cleansing ritual, the routine &#8220;poojas&#8221; were performed here as usual, as reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/aninews.in\/news\/national\/general-news\/lord-balaji-temple-undergoes-cleansing-ritual-ahead-of-ugadi-on-wednesday20200324201013\/\">ANI News<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<p> Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam (TTD), the administrative body of Lord Balaji temple, on Tuesday conducted &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/aninews.in\/news\/national\/general-news\/lord-balaji-temple-undergoes-cleansing-ritual-ahead-of-ugadi-on-wednesday20200324201013\/\">Kovil Alwar Tirumanjanam&#8217;,<\/a> a temple cleansing ritual ahead of the festival of Ugadi tomorrow. <\/p>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aninews.in\/news\/national\/general-news\/lord-balaji-temple-undergoes-cleansing-ritual-ahead-of-ugadi-on-wednesday20200324201013\/\">Ugadi Asthanam&#8217;<\/a> will be performed on Tuesday in the presence of very few people. After the cleansing ritual, the routine &#8220;poojas&#8221; were performed here as usual.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>TTD on Thursday has decided to close doors of  the Balaji temple for the devotees and tourists as a precautionary measure against the deadly corona pandemic. However, the daily temple rituals will be performed as per the schedule. <\/p>\n\n\n<p>Earlier on Monday, Andhra Pradesh government had ordered a state-wide lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-background has-cyan-bluish-gray-color has-very-light-gray-background-color\">Image source: news.tirumala.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ugadi Asthanam&#8217; will be performed on Tuesday in the presence of very few people. After the cleansing ritual, the routine &#8220;poojas&#8221; were performed here as usual, as reported by ANI News. Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam (TTD), the administrative body of Lord Balaji temple, on Tuesday conducted &#8216;Kovil Alwar Tirumanjanam&#8217;, a temple cleansing ritual ahead of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":1838,"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":[314],"tags":[470,129,192,161],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837"}],"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=1837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}