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A seated priest with bare upper body, white dhoti with gold border, and rudraksha mala sits on a grey floor in a temple hall with yellow walls and red-and-maroon drapes. Around him, several devotees sit in a semicircle: a woman in a light blue sari and a man in a blue shirt at left, two women in yellow and green saris with hands folded in prayer, and a woman in a cream sari with palms together at right. A tripod-mounted video camera stands in the foreground. Behind them a large decorated golden deity murti or ornate shrine stands on a black altar with brass vessels, and another deity figure is visible at far right. Strings of orange and red marigold garlands hang along the upper left wall.

2022-08-30 +1 copies

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Interior of a temple reception area with cream walls and a gold-patterned door on the left. A red-draped table holds woven baskets of fruit and offerings. A glass display counter in the foreground sells small packaged items, jars and brass objects. On the rear wall, a framed red-toned portrait shows a figure in red clothing, and a small black-and-white framed photograph sits on the counter beside a glass bowl of red flowers. Orange gladiolus flowers stand in a vase, and a potted plant and pendant light complete the room. No people are visible.

Photograph of a temple hall during a puja with several devotee women seated on a grey floor facing away from the camera. In the foreground a woman in an orange and red sari sits at left, beside a woman in a purple and yellow sari and a woman in a yellow and gold sari. A woman in a red sari and a woman in a black and gold outfit sit at right, the latter on a chair. Ahead, a man in white sits near a red and black backdrop with hanging garlands, a tripod-mounted camera stands in the middle, and a deity murti and a decorated altar with kalasha-style offerings are at right. Framed photographs hang on the yellow wall. The scene suggests a kumbhabhishekam ritual gathering.

KAILASA LOS ANGELES, USA on 12/18/2021

Indoor ritual at a temple hall with a grey carpet and deity murti decorated with marigold garlands and colourful silk on a left altar. A man in a saffron-orange robe sits cross-legged on an orange mat in front of a golden palanquin-style shrine heaped with marigold and red flower garlands, speaking into a handheld microphone. A man in orange robes sits beside him and a man in white dhoti with a sacred thread sits at right, holding a small ritual vessel. Seated devotees in colourful saris and a young child sit on the floor at left, and a dhoti-clad man stands near a yellow scaffold. Offerings with a brass plate and lamps sit on the mat, indicating satsang or puja. Printed copyright text appears at lower right.

Devotees file through a narrow temple corridor toward an illuminated shrine framed by draped cloth in pink and maroon, with a white-and-red ornamented deity murti visible at the far end. In the foreground a woman in an orange sari with a yellow flower in her hair walks ahead, followed by people in white, yellow and green clothing and a woman in a long white top. On the right, two bare-chested men wear white dhoti-style garments with gold borders, and a wooden panelled door stands open beside them. The scene shows the Vaikunta Ekadasi darshan procession at a Hindu temple, with people entering through the dwaram toward the sanctum.

Two men sit on mats in a yellow-walled temple room for yoga practice. The man on the left wears a grey t-shirt and white trousers and sits cross-legged on a red patterned mat. The man on the right wears a white shirt, grey trousers and a blue head wrap, and sits on a black mat in a seated forward posture. Behind them stand deity murtis and framed devotional pictures on a decorated altar, with a garland of flowers hanging from the ceiling. Framed black-and-white and colour prints of deities hang on the wall, and brass oil lamps and puja vessels sit on a side table.