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Night photo of a ritual scene. In the left foreground a young priest in an orange saffron cloth and a gold-and-blue ornamented headdress holds out a brass tray with a folded orange and green cloth, bananas, flowers and small lamps. Behind him a blue draped seat is garlanded with yellow and orange flowers. Tall decorated banners with white birds and red, yellow and green floral patterns frame the scene. Seated devotees in white and pink clothes watch closely at right, and a bundle of white feathery material fills the lower right foreground. The page associates this with a satsang, but no a person is clearly visible here.

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Night-time outdoor festival scene on a decorated ratha or chariot. A seated monk in orange robes and a patterned conical cap, with a beaded mala around his neck, receives offerings: a young girl in white with a yellow ribbon holds a brass plate of bananas and other fruit toward him, and a silver puja tray with a lit oil lamp, a small bowl and a kalasha sits on the orange cloth before him. Behind him, colourful cloth banners with bird and floral motifs and a blue satin canopy draped with marigold garlands frame the scene. On the left, several devotees stand in white dhotis and orange-red shawls, and women in saris, including yellow and purple, watch in the dark background.2010-11-19A night ritual scene in front of tall decorated banners in green, yellow, red and blue with stylised flowers and bird motifs. On the left, a priest in orange dhoti wears a tall embroidered blue and gold headdress and a gold necklace, and holds a hand over offerings. 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Figures on the left and centre are seen partly in the dark, with a lit torch at right and an orange-red building behind.2011-12-24November 11 20102010-11-11Night photograph of a ceremony on a wooden cart decorated with carved panels and a Ganesha relief. A seated young man in orange saffron robes and a rudraksha mala sits before a deity murti draped in yellow and red flower garlands, with a silver-and-gold crown behind him. In front of him is a brass plate of fruit and coconuts. A bald priest in white dhoti and shawl holds out offerings, while a cameraman films and a woman in red shawl and glasses stands at right. Oil lamps burn at the edge of the scene.2011-12-24Night-time outdoor temple ritual lit by oil lamps and flames. A man in an orange saffron dhoti and shawl, wearing a patterned ceremonial crown and a long rudraksha-style mala, leans forward over a raised dais offering fruit and food. 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A kneeling man in white dhoti, bare-backed, sits at the base of the ratha, with flower petals and a brass pot on the ground.2011-12-05November 11 20102010-11-11Night photograph of an outdoor ritual beneath a decorated pavilion with tall banners in red, yellow, blue and green patterned with dove motifs. A shaven-headed man in saffron robes and a beaded necklace sits on a raised platform before a garlanded deity murti in a golden crown, with marigold and red flower garlands. Brass vessels, a kalasha-style pot, plates of fruit and offerings sit on the platform. Around him, women in white and cream saris with yellow borders, some with vibhuti marks, stand with palms pressed together in prayer, while a woman in an orange sari stands at the centre. 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