{"id":41335,"date":"2017-02-25T11:46:23","date_gmt":"2017-02-25T06:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org\/?p=41335"},"modified":"2017-02-25T11:46:23","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T06:16:23","slug":"food-firewood-distributed-sadhus-kathmandu-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=41335","title":{"rendered":"Food, firewood distributed to sadhus &#8211; Kathmandu Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Guthi Sansthan on Wednesday started distributing food and firewood to sadhus (holy men) who have arrived on the Pashupatinath temple premises to observe the Mahashivaratri&#8211;one of the biggest Hindu festivals that falls on Friday.<br \/>\nAccording to the sasthan, 38,000kg firewood was distributed to sadhus and other pilgrims during the festival, and offer square free meals till Saturday, a day after the festival. The sadhus stay awake throughout the night in the Pashupatinath temple area, burning the log and praying the lord Shiva.<br \/>\nRs 2.4 million has been allocated for the preparations and management of the Mahashivaratri for sadhus this year, said Sansthan Chairman Khima Oli.<br \/>\nSeparate areas have been arranged for sadhus belonging to different sects. Ram Mandir, Mrigasthali Gorakhnath, Bhasmeshwor and Nirmal Akhada have already been occupied, according to the festival organisers.<\/p>\n<div><img src=\"http:\/\/assets-cdn.ekantipur.com\/images\/the-kathmandu-post\/miscellaneous\/_MG_9221-23022017080549.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"readability-styled\">A sadhu (holy man) applies vermillion paste on his face at the courtyard of the Pashupatinath Temple.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/assets-cdn.ekantipur.com\/images\/the-kathmandu-post\/miscellaneous\/_MG_9761-23022017080548.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"readability-styled\">The main entrance to the Pashupatinath temple is decorated with lights ahead the Mahashivaratri festival which falls on Friday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em><strong>&#8211; Post photos: KESHAV THAPA &amp; Milan Adhikari\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guthi Sansthan on Wednesday started distributing food and firewood to sadhus (holy men) who have arrived on the Pashupatinath temple premises to observe the Mahashivaratri&#8211;one of the biggest Hindu festivals that falls on Friday. According to the sasthan, 38,000kg firewood was distributed to sadhus and other pilgrims during the festival, and offer square free [&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":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41335"}],"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=41335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}