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April 29 20182018-04-29Night procession outdoors under a white tent canopy with strings of multicoloured lights overhead. At centre, a smiling bearded man wears a maroon-brown turban with a gold ornament, a maroon shawl, a gold ceremonial necklace, a pink-and-white woven garland, a leopard-print lower cloth and beaded bracelets. Beside him a shirtless man in an orange-and-gold dhoti holds a tall gold staff, and behind them drummers and devotees in white and cream clothes stand close together. On the right an older man in cream clothes and glasses presses his palms together in greeting, and a woman in black with a rudraksha mala also has her hands folded. The event appears to be a festive outdoor procession with percussion.2016-12-07May 31 20182018-05-31 +1 copiesDecember 23 20162016-12-23A photograph of a dense crowd pressing around two men in a stone-pillared doorway. The central figure wears an orange-saffron dhoti and shawl, a rudraksha mala, a gold pendant, a flower garland with pink, white and blue blooms, and a thin headband, and stands smiling with his hand on his chest. Beside him a bald older priest in a garland of white and pink flowers with a rudraksha necklace and white tilak on his forehead is bowed. Behind them many devotees in white and red clothes raise wooden poles and stretch toward them. a person is the central figure, identified by his orange robes, rudraksha mala, gold pendant and flower garland.2012-05-18A photograph inside a crowded temple corridor with ornately carved stone pillars and hanging lamps. A dense procession of shaved-headed men in orange-saffron cloths and rudraksha malas moves forward, many carrying ceremonial staffs and tridents. In the centre, a bearded man wearing a black turban and a garland of mixed orange and pink flowers holds his hands together in front of his chest, with a tall staff topped with a metallic finial raised beside him. Devotees and onlookers, including a child in pink, stand along the walls and background, with colourful banners and a blue information board visible on the right.2018-04-29 +1 copiesA procession walks through a covered corridor with a blue and yellow canopy and red-painted metal railings, with a wire-mesh fence on the right. A central man in a rust-brown dhoti and shawl wears a white and orange flower garland, a heavy gold ornate necklace, gold armbands and a sandalwood-and-kumkum forehead mark, with long swept-back hair. Around him, men in saffron-orange robes wear rudraksha malas, and a man in white dhoti and shawl on the right holds a tall silver staff. Women in red, orange and green saris stand among the crowd, and a few onlookers are visible in the foreground.2016-06-03March 17 20182018-03-17 +1 copiesDecember 23 20162016-12-23May 31 20182018-05-31A man with long dark dreadlocked hair and a full beard, wearing a rust-brown shawl over the shoulders and a long garland of pink flowers with gold beads, smiles while holding a tall silver staff with a round ornament at the top. Behind him are silver and gold ceremonial objects and a silver-embossed panel. Other seated people in orange and white robes, some with white forehead markings and rudraksha malas, sit in rows along a stepped area with red and yellow flags. The setting appears to be a large hall during a ceremony. a person: the man's long dreadlocks, rust-brown shawl, pink-and-gold garland and ceremonial staff match the appearance cues for a presentation of the a person candidate.2016-12-23March 17 20182018-03-17 +1 copies