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Outdoor photo of two devotees pouring water from brass pots over a large dark rock amid green trees and shrubs. An older woman with white hair, a red blouse and white sari with gold border, and a vertical tilak on her forehead bends forward holding a brass pot. Beside her, a younger man in a white t-shirt with a colourful print, white dhoti, rudraksha mala and a white tilak on his forehead tilts a second brass pot. Water streams over the rock.

Outdoor photo in a green, scrubby hillside setting. Three devotees in plain white ritual dress stand together performing an offering. The young man on the left, bare-shouldered with a rudraksha mala, holds a brass kalasha steady while pouring. The woman in the centre, wearing a vermilion bindi and pink garment, holds a brass pot. The woman on the right, in white with a white shawl, pours water from a brass vessel over a bundle of pink and white flowers. A partially visible person stands at the far right edge. Sunlight falls on dry rocks and foliage behind them.

A young man in plain white dhoti and shawl with a white upper cloth draped over one shoulder and a dark rudraksha mala around his neck pours water from a polished brass kalasha over a rock outdoors. Green and red plastic pots sit on the ground beside the rock, with trees and dry earth behind him. He wears a silver bangle on his wrist and his attention is fixed on the falling water.

A photograph of a man in white ritual dhoti and shawl with yellow-gold border pouring water from a brass kalasha over a large wet boulder. He has a white tilak on his forehead and a rudraksha-style cord at his neck. Green trees and bushes fill the background. He is a priest or devotee performing the pouring; no identifiable a person candidate is visible.

Outdoor ritual scene under green trees at an ashram setting. A bare-chested young priest in orange dhoti and orange shawl with a gold necklace stands at right, holding a silver tray of yellow offerings. An older woman in white sari with gold border reaches to place offerings on the tray. A man in white shirt with rudraksha mala stands at left, and a woman in cream sari with a red tilak stands behind him. Metal vessels and a brass lamp sit on a table at right. No person here is identifiable as a person; the orange-clad figure is a priest.

Outdoor ritual on a rocky outcrop surrounded by green trees and shrubs. A young man with short hair, bare-chested under a white dhoti with a golden border, and a rudraksha mala around his neck, presses offering food from his hand onto a rock. Beside him a woman in a white sari with gold border and a red blouse holds a brass plate of the same offering. Flowers including pink and white blooms lie on the stone along with scattered food and petals.

June 03 2012

Outdoor photograph under a leafy tree at a temple site showing a Shivalinga on a stone base being bathed in an abhishekam. A man in saffron-orange robes with bare shoulders kneels at the left, pouring from a small vessel onto the black lingam. A woman in a white sari with a gold border kneels and holds a metal pot to pour water over the lingam. Nearby, devotees in saffron robes, white kurtas and white clothes stand around, including a girl in a white dress with a red-orange shawl and a boy in white with a rudraksha mala. A man at the right wears a white kurta and a lanyard. In the right foreground, a person in an orange head wrap with a white flower garland is seen from behind. The scene conveys a ritual bathing of a Shiva lingam with offerings.

A photograph of a shaved-headed priest in a white dhoti and pink-bordered shawl, his bare upper body showing and a gold necklace at his neck, extending his hand to pour or offer a substance into the cupped hands of a woman in white with a black ponytail and gold bangles. Behind them a man in white with a rudraksha mala and a vertical tilak stands watching, and in the background other devotees in white clothes with yellow and orange shawls stand near orange and red painted walls.

Outdoors near a tree-lined street, a man in a white shirt with a bird print holds a pale cloth bundle over the head of a bare-chested man in a rust-red and orange dhoti wearing thick garlands of white jasmine and red flowers plus a gold-bead necklace. An older woman with short grey hair, seen from behind, holds a brass pot wrapped in a green-and-orange cloth with leaves and white flowers. A woman in a white sari with a red-and-gold border and jasmine garland stands at right holding a steel plate. Other men in white dhotis stand behind, with a pink building and foliage in the background. A priest-style ritual with a blessing or anointing is taking place.

February 11 2007

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A photograph of a ritual scene at night with green mats on the ground. In the foreground, a figure in saffron-orange robes with a red-and-gold band on the sleeve holds a brass pot. A young boy in a white shirt and white shorts, with a red headband and a red cloth draped over his shoulder and a small white bag, stands beside them and looks down at the pot. Behind him, several men in white dhotis and white kurtas with red shawls stand in a row, one holding a green plastic water bottle. The setting appears to be an outdoor gathering with string lights in the background.