Skip to content
Nithyanandapedia
A photograph of three men in saffron-orange robes performing a lamp offering during a ritual. The foreground man, bare-armed with white ash lines painted on his arm and gold beads around his neck, extends his hand toward a lit flame. The central man, with a shaved head and a white tilak on his forehead, holds a small brass aarti lamp aloft with a gold bracelet on his wrist. A third man behind them raises his hand near the flame. Smoke drifts through the frame, and blurred offering items and an orange cloth appear at the right edge of a pale pink wall.

More like this

Open the gallery
February 24 20112011-02-24Close photo of a ritual in progress: a shirtless man with a long rudraksha mala and white sacred ash on his forehead and arms, wearing an orange cloth, bends forward to a lit brass oil lamp. Another person in white clothes holds a brass bell-shaped object and a stick over the flame. Brass puja vessels and more lit lamps fill the blurred foreground and background. Gold bangles are visible on the wrists.2017-01-10January 08 20172017-01-08June 07 20132013-06-07Two men in saffron-orange robes perform an aarti-style ritual indoors against a plain grey wall. In the foreground, a man with short hair, a red bindi and a black rudraksha mala holds a brass oil lamp with a lit flame in his right hand, wearing a gold bangle. Beside him, a blurred man in orange with a rudraksha mala holds another ritual object, and a third person's hand appears at the edge of the frame. No deity image or a person identification is clearly visible.2011-09-10July 05 20132013-07-05January 08 20172017-01-08Several shaved-headed men in saffron-orange robes perform a ritual with small brass oil lamps. The man in the centre wears a rudraksha mala and a wrap over his shoulder, holding a lit lamp at chest height. A man at right wears clear-framed glasses, a red bindi and white forehead markings, holding a lamp with a gold bangle on his wrist. Behind them, a man in white dhoti and a bare upper body holds a lamp, with white markings on his arms. Lamps and brass plates sit on a low red-covered tray in the foreground. White horizontal markings appear on several arms and foreheads.2013-03-01January 10 20172017-01-10December 28 20112011-12-28November 18 20102010-11-18 +1 copiesA row of seated men in a ritual setting holds small brass oil lamps with lit flames, a few flames visible at left and centre. The foreground man on the right has a white tilak on his forehead, bare upper body, rudraksha mala beads and a hoop earring, lifting a lamp in his raised hand. Behind him, a man in an orange cloth wraps his shoulders, with another seated man in white dhoti and a bearded man in the background. Warm blurred lights frame the scene. No a person candidate is clearly identifiable from appearance, so the figures are described by role only.2017-01-10