{"id":62248,"date":"2025-07-28T07:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T07:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/?p=62248"},"modified":"2025-07-28T07:00:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T07:00:11","slug":"26th-batch-of-1635-pilgrims-leaves-jammu-for-amarnath-yatra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/28\/26th-batch-of-1635-pilgrims-leaves-jammu-for-amarnath-yatra\/","title":{"rendered":"26th Batch Of 1635 Pilgrims Leaves Jammu For Amarnath Yatra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JAMMU, Jul 28: Braving heavy rains, more than 1600 pilgrims left Jammu on Monday for the twin base camps of the cave shrine of Amarnath in the south Kashmir Himalayas amid tight security arrangements.<br \/>\nThe 38-day pilgrimage to the 3,880-metre-high shrine, which commenced on July 3 from the valley, has recorded darshan of the ice lingam of Lord Shiva by more than 3.77 lakh pilgrims.<br \/>\nEscorted by CRPF and police personnel, the 23rd batch of 1,635 pilgrims, which included 1,303 men, 286 women, four children, and 42 sadhus and sadhvis, left the Bhagwati Nagar base camp here in 59 vehicles for the twin base camps in Kashmir between 3:25 am and 4:00 am, the officials said.<br \/>\nThe first convoy, carrying 374 pilgrims in 17 vehicles, left for the shorter but steeper 14-km Baltal route in the Ganderbal district, followed by the second convoy of 1,262 pilgrims in 62 vehicles, who are undertaking the yatra via the 48-km traditional Pahalgam route in the Anantnag district, they said.<br \/>\nChanting \u201cBum Bum Bhole\u201d and \u2018Har Har Mahdev\u2019 with enthusiasm, pilgrims braved heavy rains while leaving for the cave shrine.<br \/>\nWith this, a total of 14,12,95 pilgrims have departed from the Jammu base camp for the valley since July 2, when Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha flagged off the first batch.<br \/>\nLast year, more than 5.10 lakh pilgrims paid obeisance at the cave shrine, which houses a naturally formed ice lingam.<br \/>\nThe pilgrimage is scheduled to end on August 9, coinciding with the Raksha Bandhan festival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JAMMU, Jul 28: Braving heavy rains, more than 1600 pilgrims left Jammu on Monday for the twin base camps of the cave shrine of Amarnath in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62248","post","has-post-thumbnail","category-jammu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62249,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62248\/revisions\/62249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}