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October 14 2007

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A photograph of devotees seated on a bare concrete floor during an evening aarti at a temple hall. Three young men in the foreground wear white kurta-style clothing with orange saffron shawls draped over their shoulders, hands folded in prayer and eyes closed. Three brass oil lamps with flickering flames sit on stands to the right. Several other seated people in white clothing are visible in the background. Walls are plain and light-coloured.2007-10-04July 14 20122012-07-14Close-up photograph of a ritual scene on an orange cloth. Silver oil lamps with flames and burning incense sticks sit on a silver stand and on silver dishes. Several people in white clothes are visible at the edges, their hands reaching toward the lamps, and scattered yellow petals lie on the cloth. A colourful striped mat and an orange-and-gold fabric appear at the right. No face is visible and no one can be identified.2010-08-06Several men in white dhotis and white shirts with orange shawls sit cross-legged on a bare stone floor in a temple hall, hands folded in prayer and eyes closed. Three brass oil lamps with flames burn on the floor in front of a carved stone plinth with floral relief panels. Other people in white stand or sit in the background near a wall, and a partially visible figure is at the top right. The scene suggests an evening aarti or puja. Two brass lamp-holders, one with a flame, sit on the floor beside the plinth.2007-10-04July 14 20122012-07-14Close-up photo of an aarti ritual: a priest in a white dhoti holds a silver camphor lamp with a large open flame in his right hand, while his left hand holds a small silver vessel. Only his hands, arms and lower body are visible, with a gold bangle on his wrist and a gold chain at his neck. He wears an orange shawl draped over the left side. The background is blurred with red and white striped pillars. Smoke rises from the flame.2010-12-19 +1 copiesJanuary 16 20162016-01-16A close photograph of a silver aarti lamp held in a person's hand, its wick flaming above a small cup with a curled, ornamental stand. The bearer wears a reddish-pink sleeve in the foreground, and behind them a figure in orange robes stands before a gold-decorated shrine or altar edge. A wisp of smoke drifts at the left and a white-clad devotee's shoulder appears at the lower right.2010-08-21A photograph of a ritual where a seated person in orange and saffron robes holds a silver aarti lamp with a burning flame in one hand and a silver bell in the other. The robes have gold-green borders and the person wears a beaded orange-and-gold mala around the neck. Before them are brass bowls, a copper vessel of pink and white flower petals, yellow flowers, and small oil lamps on a ritual cloth.2012-01-08May 24 20132013-05-24October 16 20072007-10-16Photograph of three men in white dhoti-style clothing with orange shawls performing aarti at night under a corrugated metal roof. The man on the left holds a brass bell aloft in one hand and raises a brass lamp with flame overhead; the middle man raises a brass lamp with a tall flame; the man behind him holds a smaller brass lamp and a bell. A black speaker box is mounted on the white wall behind them.2007-10-04