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February 16 2007

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February 16 20072007-02-16December 02 20092009-12-02April 03 20162016-04-03Outdoor photo beneath a large banyan tree with aerial roots and a grey-green trunk, a sandy ground with a circular raised stone platform around its base. In the foreground a young boy in a white shirt and white trousers stands with palms pressed together in namaskar, with a tilak on his forehead and a rudraksha-style necklace. Beside him a bearded man in a white shirt and white trousers bows with hands folded in prayer. Two women in white saris with gold borders move in the background near other tree trunks. Four physical people are visible.2010-07-11Outdoor photo beneath a large banyan tree with aerial roots and dense green canopy, on reddish earth with dry leaves. A bald man in white dhoti and bare chest, with a red-orange sash and a rudraksha-style neck cord, walks on a patterned mat; a man in white shirt and trousers with an orange neck cord walks ahead, a woman in white with a red shawl stands nearby, a girl in white with a red shawl follows, and an older woman in white with a red shawl bends forward at right. Orange and white flags hang on the tree at right.2013-09-13September 11 20162016-09-11June 30 20102010-06-30A photograph of devotees gathered beneath a large banyan tree with many aerial roots and spreading branches. The ground is bare red-brown earth with circular raised stone platforms around the trunk. A woman in a orange-and-gold sari stands near the center. Several people in white ritual clothes and white dhotis work at the base of the tree, one man in a white shirt carrying a camera, and a woman in a white sari kneels beside a small tool. Others in dark and patterned clothing stand nearby. The scene appears to be an outdoor ashram tree-tending or ground-preparation activity. No identifiable a person figure is visible.2016-09-18September 11 20162016-09-11Outdoor scene beneath a large banyan tree with sprawling aerial roots and dappled shade on dry red-brown earth. Several people in white ritual clothing work around the tree: a man in white dhoti and shirt stands at centre, a bent figure in white cloth gathers items near a stone-edged base, and a woman in a yellow and red sari stands at right. A woman in a white sari carries a woven basket of leaves or offerings on her head. Stone slabs ring the root trunk. The page excerpt mentions Shivaratri, but no ritual name is visible in the image itself.2007-02-16December 28 20092009-12-28Outdoor photo of devotees doing groundwork beneath a large spreading tree with thick hanging aerial roots. Two men in foreground bend forward pouring reddish-brown soil from yellow plastic pots onto bare earth; the man on the left wears a white shirt and white dhoti-style trousers, the man on the right wears a white shirt and dark jeans. Behind them several people in white clothing and one woman in a white sari with a gold border stand or stoop among the dirt; one man wears a dark t-shirt, another a grey shirt. Leafy green branches frame the upper right.2016-09-11