{"id":22401,"date":"2016-10-18T09:56:44","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T04:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org?p=22398&amp;preview_id=22398"},"modified":"2016-10-18T09:56:44","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T04:26:44","slug":"thousands-offer-prayers-at-mujangavu-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=22401","title":{"rendered":"Thousands offer prayers at Mujangavu temple"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Devotees from various parts of Kasaragod district and parts of Karnataka arrive at Mujangavu Sri Parthasarathi Temple, near Kumbla, to offer worshp on \u2018Thulam Sankramam\u2019 day on Monday.\u2014 Photo: K. Vinaya Kumar<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"body\">Devotees in large numbers offered prayers at Mujangavu Sri Parthasarthi Temple, near Kumbla, on the auspicious \u2018Thulam Sankramam\u2019 day on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body\">Devotees, including women and children, from various parts of the district, besides those from Karnataka\u2019s Mangaluru, Sullia and Puthur towns, streamed into the ancient shrine as early as 3 a.m. to receive special offerings before taking a holy dip in the pond spread on around 1.50 acres.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body\">The temple authorities had made elaborate arrangements to conduct the annual ritual as around 50,000 devotees took sumptuous feast during the day, a senior temple office-bearer said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body\">Mythology says that Cauveri river, that originates from Thala Cauvery in Karnataka\u2019s Madikkeri district, widely regarded as incarnation of Goddess Lakshmi descends down to the temple on the Thulam Sankramam day every year, the office-bearer said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Devotees from various parts of Kasaragod district and parts of Karnataka arrive at Mujangavu Sri Parthasarathi Temple, near Kumbla, to offer worshp on \u2018Thulam Sankramam\u2019 day on Monday.\u2014 Photo: K. Vinaya Kumar Devotees in large numbers offered prayers at Mujangavu Sri Parthasarthi Temple, near Kumbla, on the auspicious \u2018Thulam Sankramam\u2019 day on Monday. Devotees, including [&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\/22401"}],"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=22401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}