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January 04 20052005-01-04Kailaasa Paramparagatha Surya Vamsa Sarvajnapeetha Surangi Samrajyam +1 copiesSeptember 11 20122012-09-11 +1 copiesA photo inside a stone-pillared temple corridor with carved columns and painted ceiling beams. At centre, a long-haired man in saffron-orange robes and a marigold garland, with a red tilak on his forehead, walks forward and gestures with one hand. Beside him, a bare-chested priest in a white dhoti with a yellow-and-green border wears a green beaded mala. Around them, devotees in white and saffron clothing stand and fold their hands. A woman in an orange shawl with a gold necklace is in the lower left, and a temple attendant in khaki stands at the right edge.2010-01-08A photograph taken at a temple gateway in Tiruvannamalai, showing a group of men walking out through a dark stone doorway. In the centre, a man with long swept-back hair, palms pressed together in namaste, wears an orange garment with a gold border and a gold necklace with a pendant. Around him, men in white shirts and dhotis wear rudraksha malas, and one older man on the left wears white with a rudraksha mala. A man in a pale shirt and blue trousers stands at right. A tree and a building are visible through the open gate. The setting suggests a temple procession exit.2005-12-25 +1 copiesSeptember 11 20122012-09-11 +1 copiesA photograph of a crowd walking through a stone temple colonnade with carved pillars and a dark doorway opening onto a distant courtyard. In the centre, a man in an orange turban and saffron robe, wearing a long garland of yellow and white flowers and a rudraksha-style bead necklace, walks with palms pressed together in greeting. Around him, devotees in white dhotis and white shirts, a woman in a blue sari with yellow blouse, and a bare-chested man in orange dhoti and bead mala move through the procession. Loudspeakers are mounted on the pillars. The visible people number more than twenty.2006-09-24Photo inside a stone temple interior with carved ornate ceilings and brackets, a tall gold-plated flagstaff (dhwajasthambha) and a small gold shrine canopy behind it, lit by fluorescent tubes. A smiling young man on the left wears a long dark swept-back hair, an orange robe, a leafy green and white flower garland, a gold chain, and a red tilak. Beside him a bare-chested older man with white hair and a beard wears a pearl necklace with a green stone pendant, a maroon and white dhoti, and a sacred thread, with a red bindi on his forehead. Around them several devotees with white and red forehead marks, beaded and gold neck ornaments, and a bald-headed man in the right foreground stand close together. A printed sign on the wall reads Arulthurum Unnamulai Arunachaleshwar style Tamil text.2005-12-25Several men walk through a stone temple corridor lit by warm lamps, with garlands and colourful striped pillars at the entrance. Two central figures wear saffron-orange robes with gold or beaded necklaces and tilaka marks on their foreheads; one carries a ceremonial gold vessel. Men in white dhotis and a man in a white shirt with a rudraksha-style mala stand around them, while two women in blue and light-blue salwar kameez stand at left near a carved stone pillar. The floor bears colourful floral kolam designs. Appearance-based identity is uncertain, so the central figure is described by role only.2012-05-10December 25 20052005-12-25Outdoor temple scene at Tiruvannamalai with a long, multicoloured floral arch of marigolds and roses hung on a stone pillared pavilion and a tiered ochre-painted gopuram wall behind. A man with long dark swept-back hair and a white forehead mark wears a saffron/orange robe, a garland of red, yellow, purple and white flowers, and a heavy gold ceremonial necklace, and walks forward smiling through the crowd. Beside and behind him, a man in orange robes with a gold necklace walks, a shaved-headed man in white with a white forehead mark and a rudraksha mala stands at left, and a man in white with an orange shawl and a mala walks at right among devotees in white and yellow. Palm trees rise beyond the buildings.2010-01-08September 11 20122012-09-11 +1 copies