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Night photo of an outdoor stage under a corrugated roof, hung with leaf festoons and cloth streamers. On the left, an elderly man with a white-painted chest and forehead stripes, grey beard, rudraksha-style beads, a saffron-brown dhoti and a light headwrap stands with his hand near his mouth. On the right, a smiling young man in a white dhoti and shawl, a pale turban and a gold-beaded necklace stands with palms pressed together in namaste. Behind them, seated devotees in white and orange fill the ground, and a shrine area with garlands and a deity murti is visible at right. A round wooden drum stands in the foreground.

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October 16 20102010-10-16Night outdoor ceremony under a tin roof strung with green leaf garlands and red and orange cloth banners. Two men stand with hands joined in anjali at the front. The left man has an ascetic appearance with long white beard, white painted markings on his arms and face, and a rust-orange cloth wrap. The right man wears a cream-coloured turban, a white draped garment leaving the back bare, and a long dark ponytail; he smiles with palms pressed together. A wooden peetha or plank and a brass lamp sit in the foreground, with a seated audience of many people behind them in the dim hall.2010-10-16 +1 copiesA photograph taken at night of a man in a pale cream turban and white sleeveless garment with silver edging, standing with palms pressed together in namaste near a golden gilded throne-like chair. A gold necklace hangs at his chest. Beside him stands a bare-chested figure in red-orange cloth. Green leaf garland hangs from the upper right, with red and yellow decorated pillars and a large swirling ornamental arch behind. Audience members sit at the lower right in the dark. A visible white-robed attendant sits at lower left near a brass vessel.2010-10-16Night-time ceremony in an open ashram hall decorated with a hanging string of green leaves, a tall decorated pillar and a gold-framed red throne at left. A man in a cream turban, white dhoti-style wrap with silver border and a long beaded necklace walks forward smiling, carrying nothing visible. Behind him an older man in a rust-orange dhoti and shawl stands bare-chested beside a cream pedestal, and a priest in white with a gold necklace pours or offers from a brass vessel at left. Brass bowls, a lamp, flower petals and a silver plate sit on a white cloth in front. Seated devotees in red and white garments fill the right side, including children in red.2010-10-16October 16 20102010-10-16October 16 20102010-10-16 +1 copiesJanuary 10 20182018-01-10 +1 copiesOctober 16 20102010-10-16Night outdoor ritual photograph at a homa or yagna site. A man in plain white dhoti and a cream turban stands at centre with palms pressed together in namaskar, a row of beaded ornaments on his chest. To his right, a bald man in white dhoti and layered beaded necklaces holds a metal bowl. Further right, another man in white with a beaded necklace presses his palms together. Behind them a leafy garland of mango leaves hangs across a rope, with two painted pillars and circular wooden hoops above. In the foreground stand a wooden circular carved seat, brass vessels, a kalasha-like bowl and small offering dishes on white cloth. About twenty seated children and adults in white and yellow clothes sit on a white cloth, many with palms together, forming a ritual gathering.2010-10-16 +2 copiesOctober 16 20102010-10-16 +2 copiesDecember 09 20052005-12-09A seated man in a tan turban and white dhoti, with gold beaded necklaces, smiles and gestures while sitting in an ornate red and gold throne chair before blurred warm lights. Beside him, an elderly bearded sadhu with a long white beard, white sacred ash stripes on his head and chest, a beaded rudraksha-style mala, and orange-saffron robes sits leaning toward him with his hands clasped in conversation. A third person in orange clothing is partly visible at the top right edge. The seated man in the throne matches the a person appearance cues described by the page, but his face is not a basis for identification and the cues are only partly distinctive, so the match is uncertain.2010-10-16 +1 copies