{"id":84980,"date":"2020-04-27T03:07:02","date_gmt":"2020-04-26T21:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=15071"},"modified":"2020-04-27T03:07:02","modified_gmt":"2020-04-26T21:37:02","slug":"basava-jayanthi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/basava-jayanthi\/","title":{"rendered":"Basava Jayanthi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>The Prime minister has greeted the people on the occasion of Basava Jayanthi,the Birth anniversary of Lord Basaveshwara.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Basavanna was a 12th-century philosopher, founding saint of the Lingayat sect, Kannada poet and social reformer during the reign of the Kalachuri-dynasty king Bijjala I in Karnataka.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Contributions:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>He rejected gender or social discrimination, superstitions and rituals by advocating that every human being was equal, irrespective of caste and that all forms of manual labor was equally important.<\/li><li><strong>Anubhava Mantapa(hall of spiritual experience):<\/strong>It was a public institution founded by Basavana to welcome men and women from all socio-economic backgrounds to discuss spiritual and mundane questions of life in open.<\/li><li><strong>Literary works:<\/strong> He spread social awareness through poetry(Vachanas) such as Shat-sthala-vachana (discourses of the six stages of salvation), Kala-jnana-vachana (forecasts of the future) and Mantra-gopya.<\/li><li>He is known for introducing the <strong>Ishtalinga<\/strong> (a necklace with a pendant that contains a small Shiva Linga).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Recognition:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>He was the first Kannadiga in whose honour a commemorative coin has been minted in recognition of his social reforms.<\/li><li>In 2015, Indian Prime Minister inaugurated his statue along the bank of the river Thames at Lambeth,London.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:The Prime minister has greeted the people on the occasion of Basava Jayanthi,the Birth anniversary of Lord Basaveshwara. Facts: Basavanna was a 12th-century philosopher, founding saint of the Lingayat sect, Kannada poet and social reformer during the reign of the Kalachuri-dynasty king Bijjala I in Karnataka. Contributions: He rejected gender or social discrimination, superstitions and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/basava-jayanthi\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Basava Jayanthi<\/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":[2095],"class_list":["post-84980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schemes-and-programs","tag-basava-jayanti","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704618169},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84980","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=84980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}