{"id":881,"date":"2020-03-12T17:45:35","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T12:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-global-press.pantheonsite.io\/?p=881"},"modified":"2020-03-12T17:45:35","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T12:15:35","slug":"puri-jaganath-temple-will-remain-closed-for-4-hours-for-banaka-lagi-ritual-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=881","title":{"rendered":"Puri Jaganath Temple will remain Closed For 4 Hours For \u2018Banaka Lagi\u2019 Ritual Today"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-background has-cyan-bluish-gray-color has-very-light-gray-background-color\">Only a small group of \u2018pujaris\u2019 will be allowed inside the \u2018garbha gruha (sanctum sanctorum) for the rituals, <a href=\"https:\/\/kalingatv.com\/state\/puri-jaganath-temple-to-be-closed-for-4-hours-for-banaka-lagi-ritual-today\/\">Kalinga TV<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><strong>Puri:\u00a0<\/strong>The Shree Mandir at Puri will remain closed for 4 hours\u00a0 today due to \u2018Banaka Lagi\u2019 ritual.<\/p>\n\n\n<p> Public relation officer Laxmidhar Puja Panda said that devotees will not be allowed to have a \u2018darshan\u2019 of the deities during 4 pm to 8 pm.<\/p>\n\n\n<p> Jay Vijay entrance gates of the 12th-century shrine will remain closed for the devotees in view of the Banaka Lagi ritual,  during the four hours to maintain the secrecy of the tradition.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>A temple servitor said that Banaka Lagi is a ritual in which fresh colours are applied to the idols. Datta Mohapatra servitors will carry out the ritual on a hereditary tradition after completion of the afternoon rituals.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Only a small group of \u2018pujaris\u2019 will be allowed inside the \u2018garbha gruha (sanctum sanctorum) for the rituals.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-cyan-bluish-gray-color\">Image sources: Wikipedia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only a small group of \u2018pujaris\u2019 will be allowed inside the \u2018garbha gruha (sanctum sanctorum) for the rituals, Kalinga TV reports. Puri:\u00a0The Shree Mandir at Puri will remain closed for 4 hours\u00a0 today due to \u2018Banaka Lagi\u2019 ritual. Public relation officer Laxmidhar Puja Panda said that devotees will not be allowed to have a \u2018darshan\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":882,"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":[176,222,95],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881"}],"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=881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}