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February 03 20132013-02-03February 04 20132013-02-04A photograph of an ornately painted Hindu temple gateway, shown from below. Above the dark doorway, a curved arch is decorated with a red and green scrollwork border and gold rosettes. Within the arch, a row of painted stone sculptures of standing deities and attendants is visible, several with hands in anjali mudra, along with a multi-headed figure at the centre. Ornate gopuram-style carvings, makara-like figures and a small mythical bird crown the roofline, with a cable running overhead. No physical people are visible in the scene.2006-10-23July 13 20092009-07-13May 29 20122012-05-29 +1 copiesNight photograph from a low angle of a South Indian temple gopuram or roofline, its tiers covered in painted stucco sculptures of figures and deities in blue, green, red, pink and yellow tones. Lit figures stand in rows along the upper ledges and niches, with a dark sky behind. Heavy grey stone pillars and carved corbels in the foreground. No people are visible in the scene.2007-08-17Kailaasa Paramparagatha Suvarnapeetha Sarvajnapeetha Swargapuram SamrajyamNight photograph looking up at the painted gopuram of a temple, its tiers covered with colourful sculpted figures of deities and attendants in red, blue, green and white. Some figures stand with hands folded in namaskar along the lower storeys, and carved stone pillars and wall courses sit in the foreground beneath the dark sky. No people are visible in the scene.2007-08-17May 15 20182018-05-15June 05 20122012-06-05A large ornate temple-style gateway arch at night, painted in bright reds, blues, greens and gold, with a row of standing painted deity figures in a blue-backed niche, including a figure with blue skin and a flute-like object and a figure with a conch-like object, and a small elephant-headed figure at left. Flower motifs and serpentine carvings frame the arch. Below the arch hangs a banner with a small portrait of a smiling man with long dark hair and the logo of Nithyananda Dhyanapeetham. No physical people are visible in the scene.2013-02-05Close view of a richly painted Dravidian temple gopuram covered in tiers of polychrome stucco sculptures of deities, celestial figures and mythic creatures in pink, green, blue and gold. Central niche shows a gilded deity figure seated above a bull mount. Trees in the foreground partly obscure the lower tiers. No people are visible; the scene is architectural.2012-06-05