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A person in an orange sleeveless top stands in a doorway with long dark hair pulled back, wearing a multicolour flower garland, and reaches toward a framed shrine. Inside the shrine is a deity murti adorned with jewellery and a gold-framed backdrop, lit by small coloured lights, with an oil lamp burning on a tray below. Pictures of deities hang on the walls around the doorway, and another garland of pink and yellow flowers hangs at the right edge of the frame.

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A photograph of a standing man seen from behind, wearing a sleeveless saffron-orange top and a yellow marigold garland around his neck. His long dark hair falls past his shoulders. He faces a home shrine wall decorated with framed deity prints garlanded with white jasmine and red rose strands, including a Saraswati-like figure playing a veena and a Venkateswara-style image. Brass oil lamps, a hanging brass lamp with red flowers, scattered rose petals, and a lit oil lamp stand before the shrine. A framed photograph in the lower centre shows a man in orange robes and a rudraksha mala, garlanded. One physical person is visible, and the framed portrait is a depiction. The shrine setting suggests a domestic puja.2010-02-17A photograph of a person in a home shrine room lighting an oil lamp. The person, seen from behind, wears a sleeveless saffron-orange garment, has long dark hair, and is wearing a red and pink flower garland. Holding a brass oil lamp with a lit flame in one hand, they face a wall hung with framed pictures decorated with yellow marigold garlands and pink flowers. One framed image shows a deity in red and gold, and another shows figures in orange robes beside a seated figure. A small wooden table holds a yellow book, a brass bell, and a small lamp with a red flame. Part of another person in orange cloth is visible at the left edge.2010-02-17A woman in a sleeveless orange top with long dark hair stands with her back to the camera in a small shrine room with white marble walls. She lifts a lit oil lamp or wick toward a shrine wall decorated with yellow and red marigold garlands and a white flower garland draped over her shoulders. Brass oil lamps and offering plates sit on a wooden ledge at the lower right, with a small framed picture and a brass plate nearby. Another person's head is visible at the bottom edge.2010-02-15February 02 20102010-02-02A photograph inside a home shrine with a dark wooden wall panel. A figure in saffron-orange sleeveless robes wearing a long white flower garland with green leaves holds a brass oil lamp with a lit flame toward a large framed picture of a golden deity murti in an arch, with a red background, garlanded with pink and white flowers. Below, smaller framed deity images are decorated with garlands, and a framed photograph in a garland sits at the lower right. To the left, another person in orange robes stands with palms pressed together in prayer near a window. Brass dishes and a small lamp rest on the stone ledge. The shrine picture is a deity murti, so the scene is a devotional lamp offering. The figure with the lamp has long dark hair, orange clothing, a white garland and a sheer orange wrap, consistent with a person presentation, while the person praying at left is a devotee.2010-02-16A man in profile, wearing an orange sleeveless garment and a thick garland of yellow marigolds, white flowers and magenta and red blossoms draped over his shoulder. His long dark hair falls down his back and he has a white vertical mark on his forehead. His right arm is extended toward a deity murti or altar decorated with flowers, and behind him a large gold-leaf ornamental frame glows in the background. The setting appears to be a temple sanctum during a puja.2009-12-23A photograph of a devotee in an orange sleeveless top with a white and red flower garland draped over her shoulders, facing a home shrine and holding a brass lamp in one hand. The shrine holds silver-toned deity murtis garlanded with white and pink flowers, framed pictures of deities, and a small photo of a person in orange with a saffron head covering, placed on a wooden table with flower offerings, small lamps and brass vessels. Two other people stand behind her on the right, one in white with hands folded in namaskar and a bead mala, the other in orange, and a partially visible person in the foreground wears a dark bead mala. A white wall and window frame the room.2010-01-19A man seen from behind, bare-shouldered and wearing an orange-saffron cloth draped over his shoulder, with a garland of white jasmine and red roses around his neck and across his back. He holds a lit oil lamp flame in a small shrine niche decorated with framed pictures of deities, brass lamps and a kalasha-like offering on a shelf. Above, strands of white flower garlands hang along a pink wall. Another person stands partly visible at the right edge. Festoons of flowers and a colourful painted frame surround the shrine.2014-07-02 +1 copiesA photograph of a home shrine decorated with marigold and white flower garlands hung on framed deity pictures. A standing man in an orange robe and a pink flower garland lights a long wick lamp held in his right hand. A brass lamp stand and a plate of bananas sit on the dark cabinet below, with a brass kalasha and pink flowers at the base. Through the window behind, green foliage is visible. The man is an appearance-based probable candidate only by unclear cues, so identity is uncertain.2010-02-17A man in an orange saffron dhoti and orange shawl, with a white and multicoloured flower garland around his neck, stands at a home shrine holding a brass bell in his left hand and a lit oil lamp in his right. A devotee with folded hands stands at the left edge, and another person is partly visible at the right. The shrine cabinet is red-brown wood, decorated with white daisies, pink and yellow flowers, a green coconut and framed pictures of deities. A barred window with ornate iron grille is behind. The scene shows aarti being performed in a home puja room. The man has long swept-back hair and a dark rudraksha-style mala is not clearly visible; cues for the probable identity are limited to his orange clothing, long hair and garland, so the identity is uncertain.2010-02-15November 25 20092009-11-25December 23 20092009-12-23