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Photograph of devotees at a temple-like ashram setting with marble floor and yellow lettering reading SIVA on a pillar. A central man with long swept-back dark hair, a white tilak on his forehead, a white jasmine garland and rudraksha mala, wearing an orange sleeveless top and orange cloth with gold border, stands with palms pressed together in prayer. Probable Swamiji is the central man, based on long hair, orange ornate clothing and rudraksha mala cues. To his left an older man with white hair and glasses in an orange shirt and orange dhoti stands with hands clasped. Behind them a younger man in orange holds a folded orange cloth, and other men in white and orange stand in the background.

A photograph of a devotional gathering at a temple-like shrine with a golden railing and a pillar. A priest on the right, shaved-headed and wearing glasses, bare-chested with a saffron dhoti and sacred ash markings, raises a lamp toward the shrine. In the centre, a person with long dark hair in saffron robes and a white flower garland stands with hands joined in namaskar. Beside them, a man in an orange shirt and light orange dhoti with white hair and glasses presses his palms together. Around them, devotees in white dhotis and mundus with orange shawls stand in a row. Green foliage and a carved gold railing with Sanskrit lettering appear in the background.

August 03 2008

A photograph of a temple shrine scene with devotees in orange and white. In the foreground, an elderly man in an orange shirt and light dhoti stands with palms pressed together in prayer. Beside him, a younger person in orange robes with a white flower garland and long hair holds hands folded. Further right, a bare-chested priest in an orange-brown dhoti holds up a lit ritual lamp or aarti, with white sacred ash markings on his arm. Behind them, a crowd of devotees in white and orange shawls stands on white marble flooring near a gilded pillar and a golden railing. Green trees and shrine walls with golden lettering behind. Ritual aarti in progress.

A photograph at a shrine with a gold-trimmed pillar and small lamps on a tiled platform. A man in a peach dhoti and shawl holds a lit oil lamp aloft, with a flower garland on his chest. Beside him, a bearded man with white-streaked hair wears a saffron shirt and dhoti and stands with palms pressed together. Further left, an older man in orange clothes with hands joined and a clean-shaven man in saffron stand near a woman in white. Behind them, a crowd of people in orange and white clothes gathers under trees. Yellow-and-black lettering reading Om Namasivaya and Saravanabhava appears on a wall at left.

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A photograph of a ritual at an outdoor shrine beneath green trees. A man in a saffron-orange dhoti holding a lit lamp or aarti plate stands on the right beside a golden pillar and a tiered offering stand with small lamps. Nearby, a long-haired young man in an orange robe with a white flower garland and folded hands stands with other saffron-robed devotees. On the left, an older bespectacled man in an orange shirt and dhoti stands with palms pressed together. Behind them, devotees in white dhotis and orange shawls gather, and a stone sculpture of a bull is visible behind a wall with gold lettering. A man in a saffron-robed sannyasi-style outfit performs the aarti as others watch in devotion.

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Outdoor temple-style ritual in a leafy garden setting at a shrine with brick stacks and a gold-trimmed stone platform. A central figure with long dark swept-back hair, a white garland, and an orange robe stands with palms together receiving an aarti plate with a lit flame held by a bare-chested priest wearing a rudraksha mala, sacred ash and an orange dhoti. Around them, several men and young men in saffron and orange robes stand with folded hands, and an elderly man in an orange shirt on the left joins his palms. Behind them, a few people in white and orange watch, and a camera is raised. Rows of brass oil lamps line a ledge on the right. Yellow banners with the letters SIVA stand at the left edge.