{"id":19168,"date":"2024-01-10T05:26:13","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T23:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=19168"},"modified":"2025-04-05T15:43:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T10:13:34","slug":"prasadam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/prasadam\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Prasadam?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Prasadam<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the\u00a0country\u2019s first \u201cHealthy and Hygienic Food Street\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>It has been opened at Neelkanth Van,\u00a0Mahakal Lok, in\u00a0Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh.<\/li>\n<li>It will\u00a0connect people in every corner of the country\u00a0with pure and safe local and traditional food.<\/li>\n<li>Spread over\u00a0939 square metres with 19 shops, Prasadam offers convenient and\u00a0culturally rich dining options for the 1-1.5 lakh devotees\u00a0who visit the Mahakaleshwar Temple\u00a0daily.<\/li>\n<li>The food street is designed to provide\u00a0various facilities, including a kids\u2019 play area,\u00a0drinking water facility, CCTV surveillance, parking, public conveniences, and seating spaces.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Key Facts about Mahakaleshwar Temple:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a\u00a0Hindu temple dedicated to Shiva.<\/li>\n<li>Location:\n<ul>\n<li>It is located in the ancient city of\u00a0Ujjain, in the state of\u00a0Madhya Pradesh.<\/li>\n<li>The temple is situated\u00a0beside the Rudra Sagar Lake.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>It is\u00a0one of the twelve Jyotirlingams of Lord Shiva.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Mahakaleshwar\u00a0idol is Dakshina Mukhi,\u00a0facing south, unlike all the other Jyotirlingas.<\/li>\n<li>The temple, which is\u00a0spread over five levels, sees a huge throng of devotees during the\u00a0Maha Shivaratri festival.<\/li>\n<li>Architecture:\n<ul>\n<li>The temple complex comes with a\u00a0spacious courtyard that is adorned with THE\u00a0finest sculptures that are believed to be\u00a0influenced\u00a0by the Chalukya, Maratha, and Bhumija styles of structural design.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0foundation and platform are built of stones. Most of the upper structure rests on the strong and well-designed pillars and plasters.<\/li>\n<li>It is complete with impressive\u00a0lingam sculptures of Mahakaleshwar.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0images of Ganesh, Parvati, and Karttikeya are installed in the west, north, and east of the sanctum sanctorum.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>o The temple also\u00a0houses a tank constructed in the sarvatobhadra style.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What are Jyotirlingas?<\/h3>\n<p>A Jyotirlinga is a shrine where Lord Shiva is worshipped in the form of a Jyotirlingam. There are currently 12 main Jyotirlingas in India. The 12 Jyotirlinga temples in India take the name of the presiding deity. Each considered a different manifestation of Lord Shiva.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/health.economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/industry\/indias-first-healthy-hygienic-food-street-prasadam-inaugurated-in-ujjain\/106630212\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>India\u2019s first healthy &amp; hygienic food street \u2018Prasadam\u2019 inaugurated in Ujjain<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prasadam is the country\u2019s first \u201cHealthy and Hygienic Food Street\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":19169,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19168","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}