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May 13 2018

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A photograph of a ritual scene indoors. A man with long dreadlocked hair wrapped in a turban-like crown and strung with rudraksha beads, wearing an orange-red cloth over bare shoulders and a gold chain, places his hand on the head of a seated man with short dark hair and a red-orange shawl who has his eyes raised upward. Behind them a second person in a red robe stands near a red curtain. A third seated person with a sandalwood-marked forehead and rudraksha beads looks on, and a silver kalasha-style vessel and a silver cup sit on a leopard-print cloth at right. a person is the man with the dreadlocked crown, applying a blessing on the seated devotee's head.2018-05-12October 15 20172017-10-15April 14 20182018-04-14October 05 20172017-10-05July 11 20172017-07-11 +1 copiesA night-time photograph of a ritual initiation. On the right, a man with long swept-back hair, a beard, a red-brown saffron shawl, a long multi-strand gold necklace, a gold pendant and rudraksha-style beaded bracelets raises his right hand to touch the forehead of a bare-chested devotee on the left, who bows forward. The devotee wears a white cloth with a thin white sacred thread, a rudraksha mala and red-and-white wrist threads. Behind them an attendant in white clothing with a vertical sandalwood-coloured mark on his forehead watches, and a silver-trimmed ornate throne stands at the right edge beside a red pillar. The scene is a shiva deeksha initiation.2017-10-05October 15 20172017-10-15October 05 20172017-10-05July 01 20162016-07-01A photograph of a long-haired man in a rust-red sleeveless garment and many rudraksha beads, his hair adorned with rudraksha, placing his right hand on the head of a shaved-headed bald man in an orange garment who is seated with his head bowed. Rudraksha malas hang on the seated man's arms and neck. Behind them, men in white dhotis with yellow borders stand near a golden pillar and a metal vessel.2017-07-11July 03 20162016-07-03January 13 20182018-01-13 +1 copies