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Close-up photograph of a bare foot in the foreground, resting on a heap of loose flower garlands and petals of yellow marigolds, pink and red blossoms, and white jasmine strands. The foot belongs to a figure wearing orange-saffron robes, whose fabric fills the upper frame. Scattered petals and a few small white flower pieces lie on the foot and robe. A dark wooden edge is visible at the lower left. No face is visible, and no one can be identified from the frame.

Close photograph of a seated figure's bare feet resting on a heap of yellow marigold and pink and white petals scattered over the floor, a padapuja style offering. The figure wears an orange saffron garment and a garland of yellow and red flowers hangs at the waist. Gold-coloured footrests or a low dais frame the feet, with white draped cloth and orange fabric at the sides. Petals also fall across the saffron cloth.

A priest with a purple head cloth and a bare arm reaches into a flower-decorated shrine, placing pink and red blossoms beside a golden kalasha-like finial. The shrine is framed by concentric garlands of white jasmine, red roses and yellow marigolds set on green leaves, with a glimpse of silver ornaments and a white garment with a gold border visible within. Appears to be a deity murti being decorated with flowers during a puja.

Close view of a shrine niche densely decorated with red flowers, orange marigolds, white and yellow blossoms strung into garlands, and loose red petals heaped over a dark red stone surface. In the right foreground, the blurred forearm of a person wearing a beaded rudraksha bracelet is visible. No face is shown and no readable names appear on the shrine itself, so this is a flower-decorated deity or altar setting.

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December 25 2007

A photograph of a man in a saffron-orange sleeveless robe bending forward at a stone ledge decorated with long garlands of white, yellow, purple, pink and red flowers. Behind him stands a white statue of a seated figure wearing a red robe and red turban, with a red cloth backdrop and brass lamp stands. He has long dark hair and is bare-footed, with a rudraksha mala visible at his neck, appearing to offer his head in reverence. Orange and red curtains hang on the right, and the floor is plain grey concrete.

2010-10-16 +1 copies

Overhead view inside a temple shrine. A dark black stone lingam sits in a square silver-edged basin, surrounded by a ring of marigold flowers and scattered petals, with a carved serpent coiled around its base. Above it hang blue cloth, marigold and multi-coloured garlands, and a rudraksha-type bead mala. Two people in orange robes are seated at the lower edge: one at the left edge, partly visible, and one at the right kneeling and reaching toward the lingam with hands near the flowers. Brass ornaments and a silver-framed niche line the walls.

October 31 2006

Close-up of a figure wrapped in orange saffron cloth, with an orange turban-like folded fabric and a wooden stick resting on a dark tray. Strands of white jasmine, red and maroon flowers and yellow marigold garlands lie over the orange garments, surrounded by scattered white and pink petals. The figure appears to be a statue or effigy rather than a living person, and it is not clearly identifiable.

A decorated deity figure or murti heavily adorned with red roses, white flowers, orange marigold garlands and green leaf garlands, set on a white-draped base with coconut-shaped ornaments and a kalasha-like pot. Behind it, a bare-chested man in a white dhoti with a sacred thread stands, and a shaved-headed man in an orange robe stands further back, with a seated man in the left foreground. Red buildings and green foliage fill the outdoor background.