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April 10 20172017-04-10Kailasa Paramparagatha Arunagiri Yogishwara Adi Arunachala Sarvajnapeetha SamrajyamApril 10 20172017-04-10May 10 20172017-05-10A crowd of devotees queues under a red-roofed open-sided shelter for free meals at an ashram annadan. Many people wear white dhotis and white shirts, and several women wear white saris, with white head coverings on some. A stainless steel serving counter holds trays of food, and a man in a white shirt and grey hair reaches toward it. A bare-chested elderly man in white dhoti holds a steel plate of food, and a child in an orange shirt stands nearby. Pink paper plates and a dense queue fill the foreground, with trees and an orange wall behind.2017-05-10April 10 20172017-04-10May 10 20172017-05-10 +1 copiesApril 10 20172017-04-10December 02 20172017-12-02April 10 20172017-04-10April 10 20172017-04-10A long covered walkway with a corrugated translucent roof and blue steel posts serves as an annadan dining line. Crowds of devotees stand and sit along it, many in white ritual clothes, with a few in orange, purple and yellow saris. Volunteers in white shirts and gloves serve food from steel pots and trays onto plates held by people in the foreground, including a woman in a white sari with a red dot wearing gloves. Garlands hang along the far wall beside a framed portrait, and colourful festoon bunting decorates the trees and tents outside. Dense crowd, roughly a hundred or more people visible across the scene.2009-01-18