{"id":47667,"date":"2025-08-09T11:51:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T06:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=47667"},"modified":"2025-08-11T16:13:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T10:43:59","slug":"shri-banke-bihari-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/shri-banke-bihari-temple\/","title":{"rendered":"Shri Banke Bihari Temple"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Shri Banke Bihari Temple Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Supreme Court recently expressed displeasure over the orders passed by Allahabad High Court in a PIL over the historic Banke Bihari Temple in Vrindavan and questioned the use of \u201cintemperate language\u201d against the Uttar Pradesh government.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Shri Banke Bihari Temple<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>Hindu temple<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> dedicated to <\/span><b>Lord Krishna<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the holy city of <\/span><b>Vrindavan <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in the <\/span><b>Mathura District of Uttar Pradesh<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>\u2018Banke\u2019 means bent,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>\u2018Bihari\u2019<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> refers to Vihari, or <\/span><b>enjoyer<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this temple, the <\/span><b>principal deity stands in the \u2018tribhanga\u2019 posture, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">which is <\/span><b>tilted at three angles<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Hence, Lord Krishna, who is bent at three places, got the name \u201cBanke\u201d.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was <\/span><b>established by Swami Haridas, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a <\/span><b>guru of <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the famous <\/span><b>singer Tansen.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>present temple complex <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">housing \u2018Banke Bihari\u2019 was <\/span><b>constructed in 1864 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and is a unique example of Indian craftsmanship.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Architecture of the temple is <\/span><b>influenced by the Rajasthani style,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with <\/span><b>arches and pillars <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">adding to its magnificence.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this temple, from the walls to the ceiling, the<\/span><b> pictures of the deities<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> have been <\/span><b>painted through oil paintings.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One unique feature of the Banke Bihari temple is that there are<\/span><b> no bells or conchs on the premises.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">In the freedom struggle, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">this temple was the <\/span><b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">main center of revolutionary activities; <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">from here, the <\/span><b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">revolutionary newspaper \u201cBundelkhand Kesari\u201d was published secretly<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/india-news\/sc-raps-allahabad-hc-over-intemperate-remarks-on-banke-bihari-temple-ordinance-101754670782604.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">HT<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shri Banke Bihari Temple is a Hindu temple dedicated to Lord Krishna in the holy city of Vrindavan in the Mathura district of Uttar Pradesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":47672,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,470,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-47667","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-prelims-pointers","9":"tag-shri-banke-bihari-temple","10":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","11":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47667","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}