{"id":210172,"date":"2025-01-08T00:11:04","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T00:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/08\/maha-kumbh-returns-to-prayagraj-after-144-years-significance-history-how-locations-are-decided\/"},"modified":"2025-01-08T00:11:04","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T00:11:04","slug":"maha-kumbh-returns-to-prayagraj-after-144-years-significance-history-how-locations-are-decided","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/08\/maha-kumbh-returns-to-prayagraj-after-144-years-significance-history-how-locations-are-decided\/","title":{"rendered":"Maha Kumbh returns to Prayagraj after 144 years: Significance, history, how locations are decided"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1070\" height=\"580\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/img.etimg.com\/thumb\/msid-117023924,width-1070,height-580,overlay-economictimes\/videoshow.jpg?fit=1070,580&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Maha Kumbh returns to Prayagraj after 144 years: Significance, history, how locations are decided\" title=\"Maha Kumbh returns to Prayagraj after 144 years: Significance, history, how locations are decided\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Maha Kumbh Mela will be held in Prayagraj after 144 years, starting on January 13 and lasting until February 26, 2025. Around 40-45 crore devotees are expected to gather for this grand event. The Kumbh Mela has five types, with Maha Kumbh held only at Prayagraj&#8217;s Sangam. Planetary alignments determine when Kumbh Mela takes place. Mythologically, the Kumbh story is linked to the battle for Amrit, with the nectar spilling at four locations.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"read_more\"> Show more<\/span><span class=\"read_less hidden\"> Show less<\/span><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/india\/maha-kumbh-returns-to-prayagraj-after-144-years-significance-history-how-locations-are-decided\/videoshow\/117023924.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Maha Kumbh Mela will be held in Prayagraj after 144 years, starting on January 13 and lasting until February 26, 2025. Around 40-45 crore devotees are expected to gather for this grand event. The Kumbh Mela has five types, with Maha Kumbh held only at Prayagraj&#8217;s Sangam. Planetary alignments determine when Kumbh Mela takes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img.etimg.com\/thumb\/msid-117023924,width-1070,height-580,overlay-economictimes\/videoshow.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[602],"tags":[25385,3913,65073,24715,12811,65072,146118,165873,158134,152653,165874,39667,6512,28985,111],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210174,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210172\/revisions\/210174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}