{"id":622,"date":"2020-03-07T06:50:52","date_gmt":"2020-03-07T11:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-global-press.pantheonsite.io\/?p=622"},"modified":"2020-03-07T06:50:52","modified_gmt":"2020-03-07T11:50:52","slug":"ancient-deities-found-during-bridge-construction-in-katni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=622","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Deities Found during Bridge Construction in Katni"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-background has-very-light-gray-background-color\">While digging the foundation for a new bridge in Katni, Madhya Pradesh, the team discovered many ancient stone deities located at a depth of 40 feet underground, reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiadivine.org\/ancient-deities-found-while-constructing-bridge-in-katni\/\">Indiadivine.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p><strong>Katni:<\/strong>  While digging the foundation for a new bridge in Katni, Madhya Pradesh, the team discovered many ancient stone deities under the ground. The deities were found approximately at a depth of 40 feet.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Civil engineer Mr. Rishabh Upadhyay was heading the construction of the bridge. He called the Archaeological Survey of India and handed over the site to them for further excavation. <\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.indiadivine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/katni-02.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>The deities are<a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiadivine.org\/ancient-deities-found-while-constructing-bridge-in-katni\/\"> reported<\/a> to be thousands of years old. One of the deities appears to be \u201cPanchakritya\u201d, a five faced form of Lord Sadashiva representing five divine activities, namely utpatti (creation), sthiti (maintenance), samhara (destruction), tirodhana (concealment), and anugraha (grace).<\/p>\n\n\n<p>The construction of the bridge was being done under &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiadivine.org\/ancient-deities-found-while-constructing-bridge-in-katni\/\">PradhanMantri Sadak Yojana&#8217;<\/a>. After excavating the team found four idols along with ten small idols of ancient deities, which they had take care of the whole night. <\/p>\n\n\n<p>Image Source: Indiadivine.org <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While digging the foundation for a new bridge in Katni, Madhya Pradesh, the team discovered many ancient stone deities located at a depth of 40 feet underground, reported by Indiadivine.org Katni: While digging the foundation for a new bridge in Katni, Madhya Pradesh, the team discovered many ancient stone deities under the ground. The deities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":623,"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":[121,122,123],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622"}],"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=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}