{"id":140,"date":"2012-09-24T07:52:46","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T07:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indif.com\/wp\/?p=140"},"modified":"2015-08-23T06:12:10","modified_gmt":"2015-08-23T06:12:10","slug":"the-pitra-paksha-shraadh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.indif.net\/wp\/the-pitra-paksha-shraadh\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pitra Paksha : Shraadh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Pitra Paksha, also known as Mahalay, is a period of fifteen days. It is the time designated to give devotion or to offer respect to the dead and departed ancestors of the family. These Fifteen days are called &#8221; <em>Pitra Paksha&#8221;, or most popularly known as &#8220;Shraadh&#8221; days. They are also called by the name of &#8220;Kanagat.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong> The dark half of Ashvina (September-October) is observed as Pitra Paksha throughout the Hindu world. The elder son or grandsons of the family performs shraadh in honor of the dead a nd offers respectful homage, during this period. It is believed that only after performance of Shraadh ritual, the soul of the deceased relative attains moksha&#8230;&#8230;.. <\/strong><strong><a title=\"The Pitra Paksha : Shraadh\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indif.com\/nri\/Articles\/article8.asp\">Read More about Pitra Paksha<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pitra Paksha, also known as Mahalay, is a period of fifteen days. It is the time designated to give devotion or to offer respect to the dead and departed ancestors of the family. These Fifteen days are called &#8221; Pitra Paksha&#8221;, or most popularly known as &#8220;Shraadh&#8221; days. They are also called by the name&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1203,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.indif.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/Shradh.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.indif.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.indif.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.indif.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.indif.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.indif.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.indif.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1204,"href":"http:\/\/www.indif.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions\/1204"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.indif.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.indif.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.indif.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.indif.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}