{"id":199,"date":"2007-07-10T19:44:58","date_gmt":"2007-07-10T23:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orissawatch.org\/Infra\/?p=199"},"modified":"2007-07-10T19:44:58","modified_gmt":"2007-07-10T23:44:58","slug":"bindusagar-tank-area-in-old-bhubaneswar-being-revamped-construction-of-a-medicinal-plant-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/archives\/199","title":{"rendered":"Bindusagar tank area in old Bhubaneswar being revamped; construction of a medicinal plant garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraphindia.com\/1070710\/asp\/jharkhand\/story_8036424.asp\">Telegraph reports on this<\/a>. Following are some excerpts.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>artisans working on blocks                        of sandstone along the west banks of the sacred Bindusagar                        Tank. &#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The area around the tank is being converted into a medicinal plant garden, with all the elements of <\/em><em>Ekamra Kshetra in mind \u2014 a mythological garden. &#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The garden, that would cost Rs 72 lakhs, would also have an <\/em><em>amla tree (symbolising Parvati) and a <\/em><em>bel symbolising Ganesha. The three would have their own pedestals with substructures on which medicinal herbs would be planted. &#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The park would have two large pools in between the trees that would contain naturally-purified water seeping in through the earth from Bindusagar. &#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8230; there would be a small platform for music to add to the holy ambience. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story\" align=\"left\"><em>Artisans from Raghurajpur and Lalitgiri have been engaged to complete the work that is expected to be over by the next month. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story\" align=\"left\"><em>We have used nothing except sandstone and laterite, &#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story\" align=\"left\"><em>&#8230; the boundary and retaining wall would bear exquisite carvings depicting the lord and his stay at the <\/em><em>Ekamra Kshetra. &#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Cities like Bhubaneswar are very important in terms of heritage, tourism and religion. Its our department\u2019s responsibility to check that the temple city gets its historical and architectural glory back<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telegraph reports on this. Following are some excerpts. artisans working on blocks of sandstone along the west banks of the sacred Bindusagar Tank. &#8230; The area around the tank is being converted into a medicinal plant garden, with all the elements of Ekamra Kshetra in mind \u2014 a mythological garden. &#8230; The garden, that would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,138,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bhubaneswar-cuttack-puri","category-historical-places","category-tourism-and-shopping-in-orissa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}