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A photograph of a ritual aarti during a padapuja-style gathering. In the foreground, a man in white dhoti with a red border and a gold-beaded necklace sits at left, a red bindi on his forehead, looking to the right. A man in white with a vertical white-and-red forehead mark and a gold-beaded mala holds up a silver multi-branched oil lamp with several lit flames. Behind them, women in orange and saffron saris sit with hands folded in prayer, and a woman in a yellow-and-white sari is seen at center. Lit oil lamps glow in the background, and a white plastic bowl sits on the floor.

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A 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 20102010-11-02November 02 20102010-11-02Priests in white dhotis and shawls with gold or maroon borders sit cross-legged during a ritual, one in the foreground holding a brass bell-shaped handbell aloft in his right hand while another clasps his hands in anjali mudra at the right edge. Brass lamps, a small copper vessel, a pink tray and a plastic container sit on the floor before them. Behind, a crowd of mostly boys and young men, some in pink and checked shirts, watch, several holding lit oil lamps. The scene suggests a puja in progress.2011-11-11November 10 20102010-11-10 +1 copiesNovember 02 20102010-11-02October 18 20102010-10-18 +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.2010-09-08November 10 20102010-11-10Photograph of a shaved-headed priest in white dhoti and white shawl with gold border, wearing a long beaded necklace of gold-toned beads, holding a silver tray with a multi-flame silver aarti lamp, the flames rising and smoke drifting. Behind him another priest in white and a younger man in saffron-orange robes with a beaded necklace stand in an orange-walled courtyard. A hand at the left edge holds a bell-like object. The priest with the aarti lamp is not an identifiable a person candidate by the given cues, so this is an aarti ritual by priests and devotees.2011-12-01A shaved-headed man in a white dhoti and white shawl with a red border holds a silver lamp with a lit flame in both hands during a ritual. He wears white horizontal tilak and sacred ash markings on his forehead, chest and arms, a red-and-white forehead dot, a rudraksha mala, a long gold ceremonial necklace and bangles. Behind him a woman in a yellow sari and a second woman in orange stand, and an orange cloth and a gold-carved wooden panel frame the scene. Lit oil lamps and the back of a seated head appear in the foreground.2010-10-23November 02 20102010-11-02