{"id":41467,"date":"2017-02-25T12:55:01","date_gmt":"2017-02-25T07:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org\/?p=41467"},"modified":"2017-02-25T12:55:01","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T07:25:01","slug":"devotees-throng-siva-temples-four-districts-telangana-hans-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=41467","title":{"rendered":"Devotees throng Siva temples in four districts of Telangana &#8211; The Hans India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Adilabad: <\/strong>Devotees made a beeline to the Shiva shrines in districts of Adilabad, Nirmal, Mancherial and Asifabad to celebrate Maha Shivaratri festival. The temples were full of people right from the morning, with women offering special \u2018abishekam\u2019 with milk to the deity, while chanting \u2018Harahara Shambo\u2019 \u2018Shambo Shankara\u2019. A tragedy marred the festivities in Mancherial district, when two youngsters of Jafarnagar were drowned in the river Godavari. Their families wept inconsolably on receiving the tragic news.<br \/>\nIn Adilabad town, Municipal Chairman Manisha Pavan Rao performed special puja to the Shiva lingam. In Jainad mandal, girijans from various places visited the Badi temple in large numbers to have darshan of Nandiswara. Minister Jogu Ramanna along with his family members offered special puja in the Shiva temple at his native village. Boath MLA Rathod Bapu Rao and his family members visited the Sirichella Mallanna temple in Sirikonda mandal and offered special prayers.<br \/>\nA large number of devotees thronged the Papaparameswar temple in Dilavarpur mandal of Nirmal district, which is considered a holy shrine. People believe that their wishes would be fulfilled if they worship the deity, after undertaking a \u2018padayatra\u2019. Pilgrims offered special puja to Mata Annapurna Devi inside the temple. Among the visitors was Basara temple Executive Officer Venkateshwarlu.<br \/>\nDevotees also visited the Godiseryala Siva temple in Kadem mandal and also temples in Tarlapad in Khanapur mandal and performed \u2018abishekam\u2019. The organisers made special arrangements for the \u00a0visitors, including drinking water and food.<br \/>\nAmong the visitors to the Mallanna temple in Vellala village of Jaipur mandal of Mancherial district was Collector R V Karnan, who also performed special puja. At Kannala village in Bellampalli mandal a large number of devotees thronged the shrine of Buggarameswar to offer special worship. Among them was Bellampalli MLA Durgam Chinniah. The police made heavy security arrangements to prevent any untoward incident.<br \/>\nSimilar was the scene at the Shiva temple in Kagaznagar, who took a holy dip in the Godavari at Gudem and had darshan of Satyanarayana Swamy. They released lighted \u2018diyas\u2019 into the river water, in the hope that they would reach heaven and their wishes would be fulfilled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adilabad: Devotees made a beeline to the Shiva shrines in districts of Adilabad, Nirmal, Mancherial and Asifabad to celebrate Maha Shivaratri festival. The temples were full of people right from the morning, with women offering special \u2018abishekam\u2019 with milk to the deity, while chanting \u2018Harahara Shambo\u2019 \u2018Shambo Shankara\u2019. A tragedy marred the festivities in Mancherial [&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":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41467"}],"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=41467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}