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A feast line at a bhandara, with saffron-robed sadhus and mahamandaleshwars seated on the floor before long steel thalis and small bowls. Several attendants in white head caps, face masks and gloves serve food from large steel pots, one holding a ladle, and some wear marigold garlands. Seated sadhus in orange and red robes, some with rudraksha malas and tilak, eat with their hands. A tent backdrop and a camera tripod are visible behind the line.2016-05-05November 25 20062006-11-25A photograph of a communal feast line at a Bhandara in Ujjain. Several sadhus in saffron-orange robes sit in a row, one in the foreground with a red-orange shirt, a red thread and a gold-toned bangle, reaching toward a silver thali with small steel cups and food. Other sadhus, one with a long white beard, sit behind. Metal pots and buckets with marigold garlands are in the background and foreground. Hands are blurred in motion as food is served along the line.2016-05-05A bhandara feast line in which seated sadhus in saffron and orange robes are served from long rows of polished silver thalis and bowls. Volunteers wearing white dhotis with gold-bordered cloth and white hair-nets lean forward with metal ladles and pots, serving food, and a bearded sadhu in orange on the left holds his hands together in greeting. Marigold garlands hang on the serving pots and along the table edge. A long silver-topped serving table runs across the frame, and a bald sadhu in the lower left leans in. Several other volunteers and sadhus are partly visible at the top and right edges.2016-05-05May 05 20162016-05-05A photograph of a bhandara feast line at an indoor pandal. Along a row of steel plates, several saffron-robed sadhus and seated holy men, some with rudraksha malas and tilak, hold out their hands to be served. Opposite them, volunteers in white dhotis with gold borders and white surgical caps and gloves ladle food from steel buckets into the plates. One volunteer on the right wears a marigold garland and a white shawl. Camera crew with a tripod stands behind, and a bearded elder in orange stands at the upper right. Background shows a banner with figures and potted plants.2016-05-05A long row of saffron-robed sadhus and sannyasis sits cross-legged on mats, eating from silver thalis set on a long low silver-decorated table. A server in white dhoti and red shawl pours from a metal vessel, while another man in a red shawl and gold necklaces ladles food onto plates. Behind them a large hall holds a seated audience and ornate gilded altar decorations. Sadhus with long hair and beards are prominent in the foreground, with orange robes and rudraksha beads visible.2015-09-12 +1 copiesA row of seated devotees in saffron-orange robes, many with white and yellow sacred markings on their foreheads and bodies, sit on mats before green banana leaves holding food. In the foreground a man in white dhoti and white head cloth pours liquid from a steel jug into a large wooden vessel, while another attendant in white and a rudraksha mala assists. A seated young man in the front right, bare-shouldered under an orange shawl and wearing a rudraksha mala, receives the offering. Steel tumblers and small bowls of yellow food sit along the leaves.2019-01-01September 14 20152015-09-14 +2 copiesDecember 12 20072007-12-12September 12 20152015-09-12 +1 copiesSeptember 15 20152015-09-15 +2 copies