{"id":162461,"date":"2022-01-17T20:10:27","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T14:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=162461"},"modified":"2022-01-17T20:10:27","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T14:40:27","slug":"goat-head-yogini-10th-century-stone-idol-of-goat-head-yogini-illegally-removed-from-a-temple-in-lokhari-banda-uttar-pradesh-being-returned-to-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/goat-head-yogini-10th-century-stone-idol-of-goat-head-yogini-illegally-removed-from-a-temple-in-lokhari-banda-uttar-pradesh-being-returned-to-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Goat Head Yogini: 10th century stone idol of Goat Head Yogini illegally removed from a temple in Lokhari, Banda, Uttar Pradesh being returned to India"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n

The Union Minister of Culture has announced that the stone idol of Goat Head Yogini that had been illegally removed from a temple in Lokhari, Banda, Uttar Pradesh is being returned to India.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What is Goat Head Yogini?<\/b><\/h5>\n
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Source: PIB<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Goat headed Yogini is a 10th Century Stone Idol. It originally belonged to a group of stone deities in sandstone and was installed in Lokhari temple.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The idol had been illegally removed from a temple in Lokhari, Banda, Uttar Pradesh in the 1980s.<\/span><\/p>\n

In October 2021, the idol was discovered in London. And now it is being returned to the Archaeological Survey of India<\/a><\/strong>, New Delhi.<\/span><\/p>\n

Who are Yoginis?<\/b><\/h5>\n

Yoginis are a group of powerful female divinities associated with the Tantrik mode of worship. They are worshipped as a group, often 64 and are believed to possess infinite powers.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read more: India to display relics of St. Ketevan<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Source: <\/b>This post is based on the article<\/span> \u2018<\/b>10th century stone idol of Goat Head Yogini illegally removed from a temple in Lokhari, Banda, Uttar Pradesh being returned to India<\/b>\u2019 <\/b>published in<\/span> PIB <\/b>on 17th January 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What is the News? The Union Minister of Culture has announced that the stone idol of Goat Head Yogini that had been illegally removed from a temple in Lokhari, Banda, Uttar Pradesh is being returned to India.\u00a0 What is Goat Head Yogini? Goat headed Yogini is a 10th Century Stone Idol. It originally belonged to… Continue reading Goat Head Yogini: 10th century stone idol of Goat Head Yogini illegally removed from a temple in Lokhari, Banda, Uttar Pradesh being returned to India<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,7965,9],"tags":[3590],"class_list":["post-162461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704099413},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}