{"id":645468,"date":"2023-06-29T14:28:54","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T18:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/?p=645468"},"modified":"2023-09-05T18:21:13","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T22:21:13","slug":"union-home-minister-shah-reached-lakhisarais-ashok-temple-and-offered-prayers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/645468\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Home Minister Shah reached Lakhisarai&#8217;s Ashok temple and offered prayers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-645469\" src=\"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20-10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"461\" \/>Lakhisarai: <\/span><\/strong><span>The Ashoka Temple of Lakhisarai in Bihar is once again in the news.\u00a0Union Home Minister Amit Shah has reached here and worshiped.\u00a0Due to this, police security has also been increased here.\u00a0It is said that this temple was built in the 8th century.\u00a0But it was discovered only 56 years ago.\u00a0According to information, the temple has been fully decorated and security personnel have been deployed around. \u00a0Ashok temple of Lakhisarai is also called Deoghar of Bihar.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It is said that on April 7, 1977, when a shepherd was grazing cows here, the shepherd found a Shivling here.\u00a0A shepherd named Ashoka had discovered this giant Shivling under the ground.\u00a0It is said that Ashok used to come here daily to graze cows.\u00a0One day when he was playing gilli-danda there, he reached the Shivling while searching for the gilli.\u00a0This Shivling was inside the earth.\u00a0Later, when the information about Shivling was received, then the temple was constructed here.\u00a0Because, Ashoka had discovered this Shivling, hence the name of the temple was Ashok Dham.\u00a0Jagannathpuri Shankaracharya inaugurated the temple complex on 11 February 1993 after its reconstruction.\u00a0Every year a large number of devotees reach here during Shivratri and in the month of Sawan.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"post-tags\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lakhisarai: The Ashoka Temple of Lakhisarai in Bihar is once again in the news.\u00a0Union Home Minister Amit Shah has reached here and worshiped.\u00a0Due to this, police security has also been increased here.\u00a0It is said that this temple was built in the 8th century.\u00a0But it was discovered only 56 years ago.\u00a0According to information, the temple has been fully decorated and security personnel have been deployed around. \u00a0Ashok temple of Lakhisarai is also called Deoghar of Bihar.\u00a0 It is said that on April 7, 1977, when a shepherd was grazing cows here,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":645469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47748],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-645468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":645470,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645468\/revisions\/645470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}