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May 05 20122012-05-05May 05 20122012-05-05April 01 20132013-04-01A seated ritual scene in a hall where two priests in saffron-orange robes with red borders sit cross-legged on mats. The foreground priest on the right, wearing a long gold necklace of beads and tilak on his forehead, holds a lit oil lamp in one hand and a small brass bell in the other. The older priest on the left, with grey beard and glasses and a red bindi, also holds a lit lamp and a bell. Behind them, several men in white dhotis and white shirts with rudraksha malas sit and hold lamps, and a brass plate with flowers, fruit and a red-tipped offering sits on the mat in front. This appears to be an aarti or puja with lamps and bells.2010-10-16Several seated people in a hall perform a ritual with oil lamps. In the foreground, two men in saffron/orange dhoti-and-shawl sit on a mat with gold beaded necklaces; the man on the right, bald with glasses, holds a lit lamp in his right hand, and the man beside him, with dark hair and a gold necklace, holds another lit lamp. Brass plates with offerings, a small red-flowered arrangement and brass vessels sit on an orange cloth in front. Behind a metal railing, people in white dhotis and yellow-shawled devotees hold lamps, and a man in white on the left presses his palms together. a person appears to be the bald man on the right, with cues of saffron dress and a gold necklace, while the man beside him in similar saffron attire is likewise in the group.2010-09-09November 09 20112011-11-09A photograph of three men seated in a ritual setting, dressed in white dhoti-style cloth with yellow-gold borders, with white ash bands on their foreheads and arms. The man on the left holds a lit oil lamp aloft and wears a rudraksha mala; the man in the centre holds a brass bell and a lit lamp while wearing a rudraksha mala; the man on the right, partly blurred, wears spectacles and holds a lamp. Their posture and lamps suggest an aarti or puja.2011-11-05Two men stand before a maroon velvet curtain performing a lamp ritual. The man on the left wears a white dhoti-style garment, a gold bead necklace, a gold bangle and white sacred markings on his forehead and arms, and he holds the stem of a silver oil lamp. The man on the right wears an orange turban, an orange saffron-coloured wrap, a long gold bead mala and a gold bangle, and he holds the lamp's bowl with a flame burning in it. He looks down at the flame. The lamp is an oil lamp, and the scene reads as an aarti-style lamp offering on a white floor with a patterned mat at the edge.2010-10-24April 13 20132013-04-13December 28 20112011-12-28June 08 20132013-06-08Indoor group ritual on white floor mats with orange cloth. A central man in orange robes and a rudraksha mala sits cross-legged, holding a lit oil lamp aloft in his right hand and a small brass bell in his left, with a white forehead marking. Around him several men in white dhotis with maroon borders sit and hold lit lamps, one ringing a bell, with brass plates of yellow grains, brass kalasha-style vessels, a small brass lamp and an open book nearby. Several people in the group wear white ritual dress; one wears a white shawl. The scene reads as a puja or aarti in progress.2010-11-23