{"id":149688,"date":"2023-07-06T11:29:56","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T05:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=149688"},"modified":"2023-07-06T11:29:58","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T05:59:58","slug":"lord-buddhas-image-is-sometimes-shown-with-the-hand-gesture-called-bhumiparsha-mudra-it-symbolizes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/lord-buddhas-image-is-sometimes-shown-with-the-hand-gesture-called-bhumiparsha-mudra-it-symbolizes\/","title":{"rendered":"Lord Buddha\u2019s image is sometimes shown with the hand gesture called \u201cBhumiparsha Mudra\u201d. It symbolizes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Q. Lord Buddha\u2019s image is sometimes shown with the hand gesture called \u201cBhumiparsha Mudra\u201d. It symbolizes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(a) Buddha\u2019s calling of the earth to watch over Mara and to prevent Mara from disturbing his meditation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(b) Buddha\u2019s calling of the earth to witness his purity and chastity despite the temptations of Mara<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(c) Buddha\u2019s reminder to his followers that they all arise from the earth and finally dissolve into the earth and thus this life is transitory<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(d) Both the statements a and b are correct in this context <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ans: (d) Both the statements a and b are correct in this context<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q. Lord Buddha\u2019s image is sometimes shown with the hand gesture called \u201cBhumiparsha Mudra\u201d. It symbolizes (a) Buddha\u2019s calling of the earth to watch over Mara and to prevent Mara from disturbing his meditation (b) Buddha\u2019s calling of the earth to witness his purity and chastity despite the temptations of Mara (c) Buddha\u2019s reminder to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":149689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018],"tags":[5019],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-149688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history-quiz","tag-upsc-history-quiz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149690,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149688\/revisions\/149690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149688"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=149688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}