Skip to content
Nithyanandapedia
March 16 2020

More like this

Open the gallery
March 16 20202020-03-16Photo 11728762March 16 20202020-03-16 +3 copiesMarch 15 20202020-03-15 +2 copiesJanuary 06 20172017-01-06A priest seated on the ground performs a ritual at a doorway of a carved wooden temple. He is bare-chested with white ash markings on his arms and chest, wearing a green head-wrap, a gold-bordered blue and yellow cloth draped over his shoulder, white dhoti, and beaded necklaces. He holds a small ritual implement over a decorated setup of white and lavender cloths, yellow and orange flowers, brass oil lamps, and a bundle of yellow-painted bricks topped with red and orange flowers. Brass vessels and plates sit on the ground in front. Several onlookers in saffron and white stand in the dim doorway behind him.2016-01-02September 06 20142014-09-06A man with a shaved head and tilak on his forehead sits cross-legged on a patterned cushion on an orange cloth, hands pressed together in anjali mudra with eyes closed. He wears a white dhoti and shawl with red borders, a gold bead necklace and a gold bangle. In front of him on a silver tray are brass kalasha, a conch shell, small silver bowls of colored powders and rice, brass cups and incense sticks in a glass holder. Behind him are orange cloths and a drum, with a banner partly visible at left.2010-12-14A temple ritual before a fire pit, with smoke and logs in the foreground and yellow marigold flowers scattered on the ground. A bearded man in orange clothing, wearing an orange head turban and a shawl over his bare upper body, pours or offers something from a small plate toward the fire. Behind him is ornate gold temple architecture, with a gold kalasha and red-and-pink floral decoration. Brass bowls holding white offerings sit in the foreground, and bananas are stacked to the right beside another person in orange clothing. The setting suggests a homa or abhishekam puja in a gilded shrine.2021-06-20A bare-chested man sits cross-legged on a white floor in a hall, wearing a white dhoti with a gold border, long rudraksha mala beads across his chest, a blue cord with a small pendant, a silver bracelet and rudraksha bracelets on his arms. His eyes are closed as he performs a mudra with his right hand, and small brass vessels and pink cloth lie on the floor before him. Behind him, other seated participants in white dhotis are blurred. The appearance is ambiguous and no printed name is visible, so no identity is asserted.2017-01-06October 29 20112011-10-29A temple shrine interior with blue-grey pillars and garlanded deity murtis, including a painted figure with a crown behind the pillar. A bare-chested elderly priest in a yellow dhoti and a sacred thread holds a silver vessel and offers water or prasad at the shrine. Behind him stand several men in white dhotis, orange and saffron cloths, and rudraksha-style beads, with a brass pot on a stand. In the foreground a woman in an orange sari sits with palms pressed together in prayer, and devotees watch from behind a rope barrier. Garlands of marigolds and flowers adorn the murtis and the brass lamps.2013-02-15