{"id":4521,"date":"2023-01-20T02:43:54","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T21:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=4521"},"modified":"2025-03-27T00:51:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T19:21:11","slug":"chamundi-hills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/chamundi-hills\/","title":{"rendered":"Chamundi Hills"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Chamundi Hills:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is located in the city of <strong>Mysore, Karnataka.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The average <strong>elevation\u00a0 is 1,060 meters.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>famous Sri Chamundeshwari Temple<\/strong> dedicated to the Hindu goddess Chamundeshwari is situated <strong>on top of Chamundi hills.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>In the earlier days<strong>, the Hill was identified as \u2018Mahabaladri\u2019 in honour of God Shiva<\/strong> who resides in the \u2018Mahabaleswara Temple\u2019. This is the oldest temple on the hills.<\/li>\n<li>These hills have been <strong>mentioned in the ancient Hindu scriptures such as \u2018Skanda Purana\u2019.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Sri Chamundeshwari Temple:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is <strong>dedicated to the Goddess Chamundeshwari <\/strong>(Chamundi), <strong>deity of the Mysore Royal Family<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>This temple is<strong> about 1000 steps from the foot of the Chamundi hills.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is built in the <strong>Dravidian styl<\/strong>e of temple architecture.<\/li>\n<li>The temple has a quadrangular<strong> structure<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It has an impressive<strong> seven-tier tower called \u2018gopuram\u2019 <\/strong>or \u2018gopura\u2019 and an equally imposing entrance which is known as \u2018dwara\u2019.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>What is Pilgrimage Rejuvenation and Spiritual Heritage Augmentation Drive (PRASHAD) Scheme?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The Government of India launched the PRASHAD scheme in the year <strong>2014-2015 under the Ministry of Tourism.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Is a <strong>Central Sector Scheme<\/strong> with complete financial assistance by the Government of India.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>This scheme <strong>focuses on developing and identifying pilgrimage sites across India<\/strong> for enriching the religious tourism experience.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It aims to integrate pilgrimage destinations in a prioritized, planned and sustainable manner to provide a complete religious tourism experience. The growth of domestic tourism hugely depends on pilgrimage tourism.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0Who is the Goddess Chamundeshwari?<\/h3>\n<p>Chamundi is the slayer of demon Mahishasura.\u00a0 The Mysore Chamundi Hill got the name because the goddess resides there as Mahishasuramradhini, the slayer of the demon Mahisha.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/karnataka\/citizens-to-press-for-heritage-committees-approval-stakeholders-involvement-in-implementing-prashad-scheme-on-chamundi-hills\/article66408981.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Citizens to press for heritage committee\u2019s approval, stakeholders involvement in implementing PRASHAD scheme on Chamundi Hills.<\/u><\/a><br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chamundi Hills is located in the city of Mysore, Karnataka and is famous Sri Chamundeshwari Temple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4522,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4521","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\/4521","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=4521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}