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A photograph of the ornately carved stone entrance of a South Indian temple gopuram passage, with a orange banner reading AMMANI AMMAN GOPURAM hung across the carved gateway. A large crowd of devotees fills the courtyard in front: women in saris and white and orange garments, and men in white dhotis and shirts, some in saffron-orange robes. A man in white kneels on the stone floor near yellow crowd-control barriers, and a loudspeaker hangs above the gate. Several people in the crowd hold cameras or phones.

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January 08 20102010-01-08A photograph of a crowd walking through a stone temple gateway beneath a yellow banner reading Ammani Amman Gopuram. Several men in saffron or orange robes walk in the foreground, including a bearded older man in orange holding a small booklet and a man in orange with a sash and crossed-shoulder cloth beside a man in white. Others in white dhotis and shirts, women in white saris with yellow or red borders, and a woman in orange with a garland are visible. Stone walls carved with pillar motifs frame the passage. The crowd moves toward the inner temple court.2009-08-06August 06 20092009-08-06A photograph in a stone temple corridor with carved pillars on both sides. A banner reads Ammani Amman Gopuram, with a loudspeaker mounted above the entrance. On the right, a man in a white shirt and white dhoti, with a red tilak on his forehead and wooden rudraksha malas around his neck, stands close to the camera with palms pressed together. Beside him, another man in white with palms folded stands near a row of women in white sarees with yellow borders and yellow shawls, lined up along the left wall in namaskar. Further back, more white-clad devotees stand in a line leading toward the gopuram gateway.2010-01-08December 08 20112011-12-08July 24 20122012-07-24August 06 20092009-08-06April 28 20182018-04-28 +1 copiesApril 28 20182018-04-28 +1 copiesA photograph looking up at the tall carved gopuram gateway of the Arunachaleshwara temple in Tiruvannamalai, its stone walls covered in sculpted figures and niches. A procession walks through the central passage toward the bright opening at the far end. In the middle foreground, a figure in orange saffron robes with long hair walks with hands folded in greeting, flanked by men in white dhotis and shirts, one wearing a rudraksha-style necklace. Several white-clad men are at the lower edge, and a man in a white shirt with a vertical tilak stands at the right. a person appears as the saffron-robed figure leading the group, identified by long hair and orange robes beside the entrance procession.2007-01-12Photograph at the Ammani Amman Gopuram (North) entrance of a stone temple with carved pillars and a metal gate. Several figures walk out of the gateway: a bald man in saffron robes carries a saffron cloth bag over his shoulder; a central figure with long dark swept-back hair, a white tilak on the forehead, an ornate gold-and-yellow beaded necklace and a saffron/orange wrap walks barefoot; a young man in white dhoti and sash stands beside a steel kalasha-style water urn; an older man in white stands behind; a brown dog walks nearby.2011-09-26A photograph of a richly carved stone temple gateway with a dark inner passage and an iron grille beyond. Several people walk toward the camera across a flagstone pavement. In the centre group, a man in an orange-red dhoti and orange shawl with a red-orange garland leads a line of men in orange and white dhotis; one man in white on the right wears a white shawl and a light neck cord. In the foreground, a woman in a yellow sari with a white flower garland walks beside a man in a lavender shirt, maroon dhoti and striped towel over his shoulder. Ornate sculptures of figures and faces cover the gopuram walls.2011-09-26