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A photograph of the inside of a large banyan tree trunk, where thick grey-brown aerial roots and buttress roots form a hollow enclosure lit by a shaft of sunlight. The ground is bare earth scattered with small petals or offering fragments, including a yellow and a red flower bit. No people are visible. Hanging aerial roots curve down on the left, and the bark shows vertical ridges.

September 05 2009

A photograph of a large banyan tree's thick, pale aerial roots and trunk arching to form a natural doorway into a dark hollow space. Red kumkum-like marks and some yellow smears dot the root surfaces. On the dirt floor inside the opening lie a few small white leaves or petals. No people are visible.

A dark cave-like opening framed by thick, buttressed roots of a large banyan tree. Scattered flower petals in red, orange, yellow and white lie on the sandy earth at the entrance, and a thin rope or string runs diagonally across the ground toward a small wooden post inside. A black stone slab sits at the bottom edge of the frame. No people are visible.

A close view of the base of a large, thick banyan tree trunk with grey, rough bark and exposed roots, its surface marked with red and yellow vermilion and kumkum dabs. In the dim earth at the foot of the trunk lie a small heap of scattered white and pale green leaves, possibly offerings, on bare dusty ground with pebbles and thin roots. No people are visible, and no figure resembling a person is present.

September 05 2009

A photograph of the interior of a large banyan tree trunk with a dark hollow opening at its base, the bark marked with splashes of red and yellow pigment. Several small white flower petals or leaves lie scattered on the dirt floor inside the cavity. No people are visible in the frame.

A photograph of a dark opening between the large, gnarled trunks and aerial roots of a banyan tree, with reddish-brown earth and scattered dry leaves on the ground in the foreground. Beyond the opening, a small dim object is barely visible in the shadow. No people are visible.

A photograph of a dim, narrow shrine entrance framed by thick, gnarled aerial roots of a banyan tree. Hanging roots dangle from the dark interior above a worn stone threshold. The sandy floor inside has faint white chalk kolam or rangoli-style patterns drawn on it. Small pink and yellow flower petals or offerings lie on the stone step in the foreground. No people or deity murti are visible.

A photograph of a dark cave-like opening framed by thick, twisting banyan roots and large grey tree trunks. Two low white concrete barriers stand at the entrance. Inside the opening, a floor design of marigold-like yellow flowers and red petals forms a circular pattern, with a scattering of red petals and white offerings at the threshold. No people are visible.

May 26 2013

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A photograph of a dim, earthen-floored shrine chamber framed by thick, twisting banyan tree roots. At the centre sits a dark black stone shivalinga on a tiered base, with a single small oil lamp flame burning on its top. Scattered petals or offerings lie on the sandy floor, and faint white markings are painted near the base. No people are visible in the scene.