{"id":4641,"date":"2023-01-07T12:08:03","date_gmt":"2023-01-07T06:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=4641"},"modified":"2025-03-27T01:34:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T20:04:14","slug":"parasnath-hills-in-jharkhand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/parasnath-hills-in-jharkhand\/","title":{"rendered":"Parasnath Hills in Jharkhand"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Key Facts about Parasnath Hills:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Parasnath is a mountain peak in the Parasnath Range.<\/li>\n<li>It is located towards the eastern end of the Chota Nagpur Plateau in the Giridih district of the Indian state of Jharkhand.<\/li>\n<li>It has been named Parasnath after the 23rd Jain Tirthankara.<\/li>\n<li>It is a holy and revered sites for the Jain community, called it as \u201cSammed Sikhar\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>Out of 24 Tirthankaras of Jains, 20 got NIRVANA on Parasnath Hills.<\/li>\n<li>On the mountain, A Jain temple is believed to be constructed by Magadha King Bimbisara (543-491 BCE.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>About Santhal Community:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The Santhal tribe, one of the largest Scheduled Tribe communities in the country, has a sizeable population in Jharkhand, Bihar, Odisha, Assam and West Bengal.<\/li>\n<li>Santhals call parasnath hill \u201cMarang Buru\u201d. They celebrate a hunting festival on the full moon day in Vaishakha (mid-April).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) What is Nirvana in Jainism?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Nirvana is the shedding of all desires and ending of suffering, which finally leads to freedom from rebirth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.financialexpress.com\/india-news\/jharkhand-tribal-bodies-threaten-mega-peotest-on-jan-10-to-free-parasnath-hills-from-clutches-of-jains\/2939594\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Jharkhand: Tribal bodies threaten mega protest on Jan 10 to \u2018free\u2019 Parasnath hills from \u2018clutches\u2019 of Jains<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parasnath is a mountain peak in Parasnath Range, located towards the eastern end of the Chota Nagpur Plateau.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4642,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4641","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\/4641","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=4641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}