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February 06 20142014-02-06November 21 20132013-11-21October 19 20172017-10-19November 14 20132013-11-14November 14 20132013-11-14A night procession of young ashram musicians in saffron-orange robes with maroon borders and rudraksha malas. Several boys play long brass horns (kahalas) and one plays a conch shell, while a boy at left beats a large drum. A brass parasol with a kalasha-like finial and ceremonial staffs are carried above them, and devotees in white and orange stand behind in the dark. A vehicle is visible at right. The scene is lit by dim night light.2013-11-14Night procession on a dirt path with palm trees behind. Young boys in saffron-orange cloths and red-orange garments with rudraksha malas march and play large drums and long brass horns (kompu-style trumpets), one holding a flaming torch on the right. Several boys have white forehead markings. Older men in white dhoti and shawl walk at the left edge. Darkness frames the group, with the torch as the main light source.2013-11-21November 14 20132013-11-14November 14 20132013-11-14Night photo of a ceremonial musical group performing on a stone-paved courtyard. Two long curved brass horns, one held by the young man on the left and one by the young man on the right, are played with a central musician in a white dhoti and white shawl playing a small brass instrument. Several drummers in saffron-orange cloth and bare chests with rudraksha malas and white forehead marks play round frame drums. Dim lights and bamboo surround the scene.2017-07-07Night photograph of an outdoor ashram courtyard under a tin-roofed pavilion where young boys in saffron-orange robes perform devotional music. In the foreground, several boys sit cross-legged playing drums and long brass horns, one with a vertical tilak and red-and-gold bead necklace. Behind them, older robed devotees sit or stand, including a seated man in white with a rudraksha mala. A raised red platform with a brass kalasha-style pillar stands at right, with a camera operator and a white car in the background.2014-11-25Night procession on a dirt road with several people in orange and saffron garments. In the foreground, a young man in a white dhoti with gold border and rudraksha mala plays a long curved brass horn raised overhead, while a companion in orange with gold-edged cloth plays a horn beside him, and a player on the left holds a long brass horn with a lit torch. Behind them, orange-robed drummers and devotees walk, and a decorated ratha with a golden canopy and an ornate deity murti moves in the background, with flaming torches and strings of lights glowing in the dark.2015-11-25