{"id":84979,"date":"2020-04-25T02:38:59","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T21:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=15056"},"modified":"2020-04-25T02:38:59","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T21:08:59","slug":"ambubachi-mela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ambubachi-mela\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambubachi Mela"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>The Annual Ambubachi Mela in Assam will not be organised this year due to Coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Ambubachi Mela is held at the Kamakhya Temple in Guwahati, Assam.<\/li><li>The festival is celebrated to mark the annual menstruation of the presiding Goddess Kamakhya.<\/li><li><strong>Significance:<\/strong>The ritualistic fair celebrating the goddess period is one of the reasons why the taboo associated with menstruation is less in Assam compared to other parts of India.<\/li><li>Further,the attainment of womanhood of girls in Assam is also celebrated with a ritual called Tuloni Biya meaning small wedding.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Kamakhya Temple:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Kamakhya is one of 51 shakti peethas or holy sites for the followers of the Shakti cult each representing a body part of the Sati, Lord Shiva\u2019s companion.<\/li><li>The temple is situated on the Nilachal Hills whose northern face slopes down to the Brahmaputra river.<\/li><li>There is no idol in the temple, the goddess is worshipped in the form of a yoni-like stone over which a natural spring flows.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:The Annual Ambubachi Mela in Assam will not be organised this year due to Coronavirus pandemic. Facts: Ambubachi Mela is held at the Kamakhya Temple in Guwahati, Assam. The festival is celebrated to mark the annual menstruation of the presiding Goddess Kamakhya. Significance:The ritualistic fair celebrating the goddess period is one of the reasons why&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ambubachi-mela\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ambubachi Mela<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[956],"tags":[2094],"class_list":["post-84979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schemes-and-programs","tag-ambubachi-festival","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704821551},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84979","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}