{"id":79380,"date":"2017-07-14T14:26:37","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T08:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org\/?p=79380"},"modified":"2017-07-14T14:26:37","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T08:56:37","slug":"nine-panchaloha-idols-unearthed-temple-athur-india-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=79380","title":{"rendered":"Nine panchaloha idols unearthed at temple in Athur | India Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ad-blocker-ajax\">\n<div class=\"right-story-container\">\n<p>Coimbatore, Jul 13 (PTI) Nine panchaloha idols, believed to be dating back to the 15th century, were unearthed from an underground secret cell at a temple near Athur in Salem district, during digging work, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Workers, who were involved in digging work to install an idol of Lord Hanuman at a Perumal temple in Navalkurichi, stumbled on the underground secret cell, they said.<\/p>\n<p>As the labourers dug further, they found nine panchaloha (made of five metals) idols of different deities, reportedly dating back to 15th or 16th century.<\/p>\n<p>The idols, standing one foot to three-foot tall, have been handed over to the Archaeological Department, police said. PTI NVM SS MVV<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coimbatore, Jul 13 (PTI) Nine panchaloha idols, believed to be dating back to the 15th century, were unearthed from an underground secret cell at a temple near Athur in Salem district, during digging work, police said. Workers, who were involved in digging work to install an idol of Lord Hanuman at a Perumal temple in [&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\/79380"}],"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=79380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}