{"id":4778,"date":"2015-05-18T01:47:59","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T01:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/hindi\/?p=4778"},"modified":"2015-05-31T23:37:22","modified_gmt":"2015-05-31T23:37:22","slug":"indian-festival-ganga-dussehra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/hindi\/indian-festival-ganga-dussehra\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Festival &#8211; Ganga Dussehra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Let me take you too a interesting and colorful festival from India which is called Ganga Dussehra.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Ganga Dussehra (\u0917\u0902\u0917\u093e \u0926\u0936\u0939\u0930\u093e) is a festival which is celebrated to\u00a0commemorated the day when Goddess Ganga (or river Ganges) descended from Heaven to the Earth. It is also known as Gangavataran which means \u2018the descent of the Ganga\u2019. Th festival (<span class=\"gt-card-ttl-txt\">\u0924\u094d\u092f\u094b\u0939\u093e\u0930 &#8211; Tyohaar)<\/span> and is celebrated annually (<span class=\"gt-card-ttl-txt\">\u092a\u094d\u0930\u0924\u093f\u0935\u0930\u094d\u0937<\/span> &#8211; Prativarsh) during the Jyeshta month (May according to Gregorian Calendar).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4779\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter post-item__attachment\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/hindi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2015\/03\/Ganga-Dussehra-10.jpg\" aria-label=\"Ganga Dussehra 10 300x214\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4779\" class=\"wp-image-4779\"  alt=\"Ganga Dussehra\" width=\"500\" height=\"357\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/hindi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2015\/03\/Ganga-Dussehra-10-300x214.jpg\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4779\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ganga Dussehra<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">On Ganga Dussehra devotees worship Goddess Ganga and take bath in river Ganges. Taking bath in Ganges and offering charity or Dan-Punya (\u0926\u093e\u0928-\u092a\u0941\u0923\u094d\u092f) on Ganga Dussehra day is considered highly auspicious. It is believed that holy dip in Ganges on Ganga Dussehra day can purge all type of sins (\u092a\u093e\u092a &#8211; Paap). Devotees flock to Allahabad\/Prayag, Garhmukteshwar, Haridwar, Rishikesh and Varanasi to take a holy dip. Ganga Dussehra celebrations are legendary in Varanasi. On Ganga Dussehra day thousands of devotees (\u092d\u0915\u094d\u0924 &#8211; Bhakt) do Ganga Snan (Bath in Ganges) and participate in Ganga Aarti at Dasaswamedh Ghat.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ganga Dussehra 2013 celebration\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5YOLt2GVvKw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">This festival is very popular among people of the state of Bihar, Bengal and Uttar Pradesh who celebrate this festival with much reverence. The celebration continues for ten days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"300\" height=\"214\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/hindi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2015\/05\/Ganga-Dussehra-10-300x214.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><p>Let me take you too a interesting and colorful festival from India which is called Ganga Dussehra. Ganga Dussehra (\u0917\u0902\u0917\u093e \u0926\u0936\u0939\u0930\u093e) is a festival which is celebrated to\u00a0commemorated the day when Goddess Ganga (or river Ganges) descended from Heaven to the Earth. It is also known as Gangavataran which means \u2018the descent of the Ganga\u2019&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/hindi\/indian-festival-ganga-dussehra\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":5029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3792],"tags":[238651,309328,10830,3847],"class_list":["post-4778","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hindi-language","tag-festival-of-india","tag-ganga-dussehra","tag-hindu-festival","tag-indian-festival"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/hindi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/hindi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/hindi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/hindi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/hindi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4778"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/hindi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4783,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/hindi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4778\/revisions\/4783"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/hindi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/hindi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/hindi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/hindi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}