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Dark night photo of an outdoor ritual at a stone-and-rock shrine framed by an ornate silver arch. A figure in orange robes sits before a dark stone deity murti draped with a garland, with offerings and oil lamps on the ground in front. Around them, people in white clothing stand and kneel, and a camera on a tripod is set up at the right. Several seated devotees in the foreground face the shrine.

December 27 2005

Night-time outdoor ritual on a raised stone platform. A seated figure in an orange robe with long dark hair sits before a brass puja tray and small metal vessels, with a white cloth draped behind. Nearby, a figure in a white robe stands at a white-draped table, and several people in white clothes stand and sit in the background. Seated devotees in white and light clothing fill the left foreground, many holding papers or small items. A large stone or rock formation with a garlanded orange-clad figure rises at right. Hanging lights and a tripod-mounted camera are visible. The scene suggests a satsang or puja after dark.

December 15 2005

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December 18 2005

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Night outdoor ritual photo. A woman in an orange saffron wrap stands barefoot, holding up a lit multi-tiered brass aarti lamp with a bright flame. Behind a white-draped table, several people in white clothes sit and kneel with hands folded in prayer. On the right, men in white dhotis and shawls stand with palms pressed together. In the foreground, a patterned mat holds brass vessels, fruit, flowers and small oil lamps, and a few people in the lower corners are partly visible. The setting is dark with trees behind.

November 24 2007

Night outdoor ritual at a shrine beneath dark trees. A large black Shiva lingam-style murti with an orange cloth and white garland stands inside a silver arched frame, with a stone-and-white-painted serpent coil around its base. A figure in orange cloth sits before the base, garlanded with white flowers. At the right, a standing man with long dark hair, bare-chested and wearing an orange wrap, raises a lit oil lamp in one hand and holds a small vessel in the other. In the foreground, two shaven-headed devotees in white kneel, one with brass bells and a lamp near the floor, and offerings sit on a rug. Behind them, about fifteen seated and standing devotees in white clothes watch the aarti.

Night-time outdoor ritual at an open-air shrine under dark trees. A woman in a saffron-orange robe stands at right, holding a lit oil lamp aloft on a long pole and an aarti-style offering in her other hand. Before a black deity murti in a silver arch, draped in orange cloth and garlanded with flowers, a seated figure in saffron robes sits on a rocky stone platform with a cobra-like serpent form curling around its base. Rows of people in white clothes sit and stand with hands folded in anjali. Brass bells, small pooja plates and offerings sit on a rug in the foreground, and bald people in white are visible at the lower edge. Some figures are cut off by the frame. The scene shows an evening puja and aarti.

Night photograph of an outdoor shrine beneath a large banyan tree with lit lamps hanging in the branches. On the left a man in an orange-saffron robe holds a small lit flame or lamp aloft toward a shrine. Behind him several men in white ritual clothes stand in a row, one in a white shirt and light trousers, others in white dhotis and shirts. At right a dark stone or metal deity murti stands on a red-and-white painted pedestal, draped in white cloth and wearing a beaded necklace. In front of the pedestal a white-draped linga-shaped form with a golden hooded serpent above it sits on a stone platform, with a black-and-white patterned serpent figure coiled along the lower foreground and small oil lamps lit on the ground. A figure wearing a white turban and rudraksha-style beads sits near the right edge, but whether this is a living person or a statue is unclear.