{"id":25009,"date":"2024-07-14T07:23:51","date_gmt":"2024-07-14T01:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=25009"},"modified":"2025-04-07T14:49:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T09:19:24","slug":"about-kharchi-puja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/about-kharchi-puja\/","title":{"rendered":"About Kharchi Puja"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Kharchi Puja:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is one of the main <strong>festivals of Tripura.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is performed during <strong>the months of July-August<\/strong> on the eighth day of the new moon.<\/li>\n<li>The meaning of Kharchi can be understood by splitting the word into two Tripuri words \u201cKhar\u201d or Kharta meaning sin and \u201cChi\u201d or si meaning cleaning. Hence it signifies the cleansing of our sins.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It occurs during the month of \u2018Ashad\u2019 on the \u2018Shukla Ashtami\u2019 day.<\/li>\n<li>The fourteen Gods are worshipped by the <strong>Royal priest Chantai.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It lasts for seven days and it takes place at old Agartala in the Fourteen Gods temple known as <strong>the \u2018Chaturdasha Devata\u2019 temple<\/strong> premises.<\/li>\n<li>The Kharchi Puja deities do not have a full body; they have only heads which are worshipped.<\/li>\n<li>On the day of the puja, the fourteen Gods are taken from the temple <strong>to the river Saidra<\/strong> by the Chantai members and given bathe with the holy river water, then carried back to the temple.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>This festival&#8217;s customs are completely related to the authentic Tripuri traditions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1:Where is the Chaturdasha Temple?<\/h3>\n<p>\u00a0It is also known as the Temple Of Fourteen Deities and is located near the old part of Agartala where the royal palace is situated. The location of the temple is about 8 kilometers away from the main city of Agartala which is the capital of the state of Tripura in India.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2033074\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>PM greets on Kharchi Puja<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kharchi Puja  is performed during the months of July-August on the eighth day of the new moon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":25010,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25009","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\/25009","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=25009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}