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Photograph of a puja inside a hall with red-toned walls. A bearded man in white clothes and a rudraksha mala holds up a silver oil lamp with a flame, looking toward it, with a red tilak on his forehead. Beside him a woman with folded hands, wearing a yellow garment, and a shaved-headed priest in white with white tripundra markings and a gold necklace hold up another lit oil lamp in the foreground. Blurred people sit in the background. Silver oil lamps and a bronze vessel are visible at the lower right.

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A photograph of a ritual aarti in a hall with red chairs in the background. In the foreground a man in a white shirt and white dhoti holds up a brass oil lamp with a lit flame in his raised right hand, with a red kumkum mark on his forehead and a red thread wrist bracelet, looking toward the flame. Beside him a shaven-headed priest in a bare-chested, white-cloth dress wears white vibhuti horizontal marks, glasses, a gold necklace and a gold bracelet and holds another lit lamp with cupped hands. A woman with light hair is partly visible behind the man. Several other people's heads and a bald head appear at the lower edge.2010-10-19A photo of a devotional gathering with a shaven-headed man in white clothes and a gold chain necklace holding a silver lamp with a lit flame, with a red tilak on his forehead. Around him, seated devotees include a woman in glasses with white tilak marks, an older woman with grey hair, and an older man on the right with a white moustache, white shirt and rudraksha-style beads, his hands pressed together in prayer. A blonde woman in a light outfit sits behind the lamp-bearer. Lit oil lamps and a blurred crowd in white are visible in the background, with orange chairs at the top right. The scene suggests a puja or aarti offering. The lamp-bearer has no distinctive visible cues for the page's a person claim, so the identity is marked uncertain.2010-10-12A photograph of a ritual aarti scene with several people holding small silver oil lamps with lit flames. In the foreground, a hand reaches toward a silver lamp with a flickering flame, while a shaved-headed man in white dhoti and white shawl with a red bindi holds a lamp near his face. Behind him, people in orange and saffron shawls hold lamps as well. A silver plate with lamps and offerings sits in the lower left. The setting appears to be a devotional gathering with lamp offerings.2010-09-08October 22 20142014-10-22 +1 copiesOutdoor group ritual with devotees seated on mats and cloth. In the foreground a bald man in white dhoti with a red border holds a silver lamp (aarti) over a silver thali of offerings, while a gold-chain-adorned man in white and a woman in a white sari with yellow border sit with hands in anjali. On the left a bare-chested man with gold necklace holds a small oil lamp with a flame. A woman in glasses and white attire with a yellow shawl and forehead marks is seated in the middle, and a woman in white with a yellow shawl and bangles folds her hands at right. Brass lamps and offerings lie on the floor behind, with more devotees in orange and white visible in the background.2010-09-08A shaved-headed priest in white dhoti and white shawl with a maroon-and-gold border sits and performs a ritual, holding a small silver spoon in one hand and gesturing with the other above a silver oil lamp with a visible flame. He wears a gold necklace with beads and a bronze-coloured wrist mala, and has white ash marks and a red bindi on his forehead. Beside him a woman in a yellow-and-white sari with white bangles and a red bindi watches attentively. Behind them, devotees in white and an orange-clad figure with a red cloth sit in smoky, hazy light.2010-09-08November 02 20102010-11-02June 05 20122012-06-05A photograph of a temple-style puja with several people seated before a raised offering table. In the centre, a bald man with a white tilak, moustache, white kurta and rudraksha malas holds a small oil lamp in cupped hands while gazing upward. Beside him, a woman in a white and green sari with a gold-rimmed border holds a brass lamp and joins her palms. Behind them, a priest wearing an orange shawl, a long mala and sandalwood marks on his arms sits near a microphone stand, and another man in white with a mala stands at right. Fruits and flower-decorated trays rest on a table at the top right, and more oil lamps glow in the foreground beside a silver offering plate of fruit and flowers.2010-10-22 +1 copiesA group of men in plain white dhotis sit on the floor during a ritual, holding small brass oil lamps (deepa) lit with flames. The man in the centre, bare-chested with a rudraksha mala and a red-brown pendant, extends his lamp forward with his arm. Beside him, a man with a white tripundra on his forehead and another in plain white also hold lamps. On the left, a close-cropped man in white with a red thread holds a lamp and appears to chant. Brass plates with flowers, betel and offerings rest on the floor, and a green-and-gold draped table stands in the background. This is a lamp-lighting ritual, consistent with aarti.2010-11-30April 14 20182018-04-14November 24 20102010-11-24