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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.

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Men in white ritual dhotis perform an aarti with small brass oil lamps held outstretched. The foreground man, bare-chested with a rudraksha mala across his chest and a brass bangle on his wrist, faces left holding one lamp. Behind him a man with white horizontal tilak stripes on his forehead and arms holds a second lit lamp. Another man at left edge is partly visible. A green and gold draped structure and a red tray with offerings sit at the lower right. The scene suggests a devotional lamp offering. The foreground man's bare chest and mala are visible, but his face is not distinctively marked by the qualifying cues required for a probable identification, so his identity is unsure.2010-11-30October 18 20102010-10-18 +1 copiesPhotograph 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.2010-10-19September 05 20122012-09-05December 21 20132013-12-21A 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 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.2010-10-12December 14 20112011-12-14A photograph of a shaved-headed man in white ritual dhoti and shawl, bare-chested on one side, wearing a long necklace of large gold beads and a dark pendant, with a red tilak on his forehead. He holds a small silver lamp with a flame in his right hand. Beside him sits an older man in a white shirt with a rudraksha mala, and at the left edge a woman with long hair is partly visible. Blurred orange and white surroundings suggest a puja or satsang setting.2010-10-12April 01 20162016-04-01November 24 20102010-11-24September 15 20112011-09-15