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Overhead photo of sweets and snacks arranged on a deep red velvet cloth. Brass bowls with perforated rims hold round laddus in yellow, cream, grey and brown tones, and a heap of pale spiral snack. Blue ceramic bowls contain more laddus in brown, grey, cream and golden shades, and a blue bowl holds puffed rice-type balls. No people or deity visible; the arrangement looks like food offerings laid out for a ritual.

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Overhead photo of a red velvet cloth covered with small metal bowls of fried and sweet snacks offered as naivedyam. Bowls hold crisp golden murukku-style spirals, small fried gram-flour pieces, round flat savoury discs, sweet round balls studded with raisins or nuts, a bowl of flaked toasted grains, a bowl of rolled ring-shaped snacks, and a bowl of orange fried vermicelli-like strands. Puffed rice sits on a brass plate at the top left. No people are visible.2023-01-03Overhead photo of three round blue ceramic bowls on a red velvet cloth, filled with spherical sweets or laddus. The left bowl holds pale grey-beige balls studded with small white seeds or grains. The top bowl holds brown balls with visible nuts or grains and a few pale pieces. The bottom bowl holds golden-brown balls made of peanuts or chickpeas in a caramelised coating. A fourth bowl is partly visible at the right edge. No people, deities or a person are visible.Overhead view of a naivedyam spread of many small round steel bowls arranged on a deep red velvet cloth. The bowls hold savouries and sweets including fried snacks, twisted and spiral snacks, fried dough pieces, roasted peanuts, cashews, green peas, puffed rice sweets, brown and yellow balls, grapes and papery crisps, with a banana leaf at the left edge. No people are visible in the frame.2022-12-19Close overhead photo of offerings arranged on a low table draped in beige cloth, with a red cloth below. Round brass bowls hold round laddu-style balls, one coated in golden-brown powder and one lighter-coloured with a sprinkled crust; another bowl holds split yellow and brown lentils or chana dal. A blue-rimmed plate of raw peanuts sits at the right edge, and palm leaves appear at the top. No people are visible.2025-12-30Overhead photograph of two perforated brass bowls on a red and gold brocade cloth. The left bowl holds a heap of orange twisted savoury snacks resembling murukku. The right bowl holds many round, pale pinkish-beige sweet balls studded with white and pale nuts or seeds, possibly laddus, with a few darker pieces visible at the bottom edge. No people, deity forms or ritual activity are visible.A photograph of an offering spread on a table draped with a deep red cloth. In the centre is a large brass platter of plain cooked rice scattered with peanuts. Around it are brass bowls and plates holding orange spiral snack (murukku-style), round brown ladoos, roasted peanuts, and yellow lentils or dal. No people, deities or ritual objects are visible, and no homa or a person is shown.2025-12-30Photograph of a large steel platter heaped with round, pale golden-beige balls made of puffed grain or lentil dough. A second bowl at right holds crisp, curled fried strands in orange-brown tones, and smaller steel plates with fried chips and condiments sit around the edges on a dark red cloth. No people are visible.2022-01-03Close overhead photo of several shallow metal bowls filled with sweets and snacks arranged on a deep red velvet cloth. The central bowl holds cubes of pale golden fudge-like sweet, with dark gulab jamun balls in a bowl at the top, twisted orange jalebi-style spirals at top left, sesame-coated brittle pieces at top right, and fried savoury snacks at lower left. No people are visible; the food appears to be offered as prasadam, with the scene.2022-12-19December 19 2022 sripuram2022-12-19A photograph of a festive offering table draped in red velvet with a gold-bordered cloth edge. Brass plates hold savory fried snacks in brown and orange tones, round white sweet balls coated in sesame or coconut, grey-brown laddus, fresh fruit including pineapple, oranges, guavas, apples and bananas, and small steel bowls of sweets, nuts and fried items. A tiger-striped cloth-covered box sits at the centre with a brass bowl of flowers and petals on top. No people are visible; the arrangement looks like a naivedyam offering.2023-01-03Overhead photograph of an offering arrangement on a red and gold brocade cloth. Small brass bowls hold puffed rice balls, rock sugar crystals, almonds, dates, cashew-like nuts, roasted seeds, round sweet laddus, orange spiral snacks, a pale block of jaggery, white sesame seeds, turmeric powder in a large brass dish and red kumkum powder at the lower left. No people are visible; the items appear prepared as food and colour offerings for a ritual.Overhead photo of sweets arranged on a bright red and gold patterned cloth. In the foreground, a brass bowl with a scalloped, pierced rim holds brittle clusters of puffed grain and pulses bound with golden jaggery. Another pierced brass bowl at right holds several round, brown, rustic laddus. At the top, a pierced bowl holds rice-puff balls coated in golden syrup, and a dark metal vessel sits at the upper right corner. No people are visible.