{"id":48190,"date":"2025-05-25T16:29:28","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T10:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=48190"},"modified":"2025-05-29T16:32:25","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T11:02:25","slug":"nagshankar-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/nagshankar-temple\/","title":{"rendered":"Nagshankar Temple"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Nagshankar Temple Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Nagshankar, in northeastern Assam\u2019s Biswanath district, has been designated a model temple for turtle conservation.<\/p>\n<h2>About Nagshankar Temple<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an\u00a0<strong>ancient Hindu shrine\u00a0<\/strong>dedicated to<strong>\u00a0Lord Shiva.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is situated on the\u00a0<strong>north bank of<\/strong>\u00a0the river\u00a0<strong>Brahmaputra\u00a0<\/strong>within the administrative district of Biswanath in\u00a0<strong>Assam<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It is said to have been\u00a0<strong>built by King Narasankar of Nagakha<\/strong>\u00a0in the<strong>\u00a04th century AD.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Later on it was<strong>\u00a0repaired by Ahom king Su-sen-pha<\/strong>\u00a0in 1480.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The temple premises feature a\u00a0<strong>large pond,<\/strong>\u00a0whichhouses 250-300 of the\u00a0<strong>world&#8217;s rarest species of turtles.\u00a0<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Among the species,\u00a0<strong>black softshell, Indian softshell,\u00a0<\/strong>and Malayan softshell are found.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Some\u00a0<\/strong>of these turtles are even\u00a0<strong>believed to be hundreds of years old.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Its campus also has animals like\u00a0<strong>peacocks, deer, and pythons.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Nagshankar Temple FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. In which Indian state is the Nagshankar Temple located?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Assam<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. Who is said to have originally built the Nagshankar Temple?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. It is said to have been built by King Narasankar of Nagakha in the 4th century AD.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. What unique feature does the temple pond contain?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Rare species of turtles<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/energy-and-environment\/assams-nagshankar-becomes-model-temple-for-turtle-conservation\/article69614773.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nagshankar Temple is an ancient Hindu shrine dedicated to Lord Shiva, known for its spiritual significance and historic architecture in Assam, India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":48191,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[563,21,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-48190","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-nagshankar-temple","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","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\/48190","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=48190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}