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A photograph of a temple ritual in a hall with maroon curtains and striped decorative pillars. A priest with a shaved head and white tilak marks, wearing a blue shawl over white dhoti and a face mask, holds a small brass vessel and gestures toward a woman in a pink sari and gold jewellery who holds a silver plate of fruit. Beside them a bare-chested man in a white turban with a gold garland and beaded necklace stands watching, and another woman in a purple sari stands behind. Bananas, oranges and flower petals are on the plate, and a deity statue stands in the background.

November 14 2021

Photograph inside a golden-walled Hindu temple shrine. Five bare-chested men in white dhotis stand with palms pressed together in anjali, facing the camera, with a small bare-chested boy in front of them also in anjali. A man in a black face mask wears a red tilak, and a man in a dark jacket stands behind with hands folded. Behind them are gilded arches, a deity murti draped in garlands, and a bright altar with a colourful figure in pink and blue, beside a silver kalasha. In front, a brass tray of bananas, grapes, pomegranate, apples and oranges, plus a lit oil lamp, brass bowls, a folded teal and gold silk cloth with jewelled ornament, and a brass aarti plate and vessels on a side table.

Indoor ritual scene in a bright hall with fluorescent ceiling lights and a yellow-orange wall backdrop. On the left, a bare-chested priest with long dark hair and a face mask, wearing a white dhoti with a blue-patterned border, a rudraksha mala, and white sacred ash markings on his arms and chest, holds a hand toward a lit aarti tray. Beside him, a woman in a yellow and purple sari holds a brass plate of flaming oil lamps. Center, a man in a white dhoti with a gold border and gold beaded necklace presses his palms together. On the right, a smiling man with a multicolored headcloth and a rudraksha mala stands with hands folded in anjali mudra. Green mats cover the floor, and other devotees stand in the background.

KAILASA SEATTLE, USA on 8/10/2021

Indoor temple puja in a shrine room with gold-arched niches and yellow curtains. Four people are visible: a woman in a white sari with a gold border reads from an open book on the left; an older woman in white with a red shawl holds a metal plate; a bare-chested man in a white dhoti performs the ritual at a central altar; and a bare-chested man in a white dhoti and mask holds a garland of lemons and marigolds over a decorated deity murti. Behind them stand carved deity statues, and the altar table holds brass plates, bowls of rice and vegetable curry, mangoes, pomegranate, flower petals, and a ring of green limes around a blue-draped murti.

KAILASA LOS ANGELES, USA on 2/21/2020

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November 13 2021

2022-06-17 +1 copies

Two bare-chested men in white dhotis perform a ritual abhishekam at a shrine. The man on the right pours liquid from a brass vessel onto a small brass murti of a deity standing on a wooden stand at the right. The man on the left, wearing a face mask and a rudraksha-style mala, stands beside him with hands together. Before them on an orange cloth are brass plates and bowls holding bananas, oranges, limes, pink flower petals and a brass lamp. Behind them, standing statues of deities in bright saffron, gold and pink garments stand against a golden-framed arch and a beige wall.

A photograph of a temple ritual in a room with maroon velvet curtains and a striped multicolored floor mat. Four men in white dhotis, shirtless, stand before deity murti. On the left two men with hands pressed together in namaskar face a green-and-gold deity statue. In the center a man with a cream turban and rudraksha-style beads stands. On the right two men in cream turbans perform offerings at a decorated altar with a garlanded figure. Banana bunches, kalasha pots with mango leaves and flowers, and a brass oil lamp sit in the foreground, with hanging red and orange ceremonial banners decorated with yellow marigold garlands.

2026-02-14 +1 copies