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A photograph of an offering spread laid on a green cloth and orange-red mat before a deity murti draped in a gold-and-orange silk garment, with a pink cloth on a stand behind it. Six stainless steel trays hold cooked rice dishes in yellow, white, orange and brown tones, including a pale kheer-like sweet, a plain white rice and a spiced pulao. Banana leaves hold fruits and sweets, including lemons, grapes, nuts and fried snacks, and a brass plate holds burning incense, a lit oil lamp and flowers. A white sign on a stand reads the centre's name. No people are visible.

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Indoor shrine photo showing a large golden ornate arch (prabhavali) behind a standing deity murti wearing a red and gold turban, a garland of pink and yellow flowers, and holding a trident, with an orange silk skirt draping its base. In front is a long display of steel trays filled with rice dishes, sweets, lentil preparations and fruit on banana leaves, an annakut offering, with a lit oil lamp and a brass puja plate of flowers in the foreground. A gold palanquin-style canopy stands on the right and a framed painting hangs on the left. A sign reads KAILASA TIRUVANNAMALAI SRI NITHYANANDA JANMABHUMI. No people are visible.2024-06-09Indoor shrine photograph showing a Ganesha murti in the centre, its body decorated with a pink and magenta flower garland and a golden-orange skirt-like cloth draped below. Behind it stands an ornate gilded arched kiosk. Before the idol, a large spread of food offerings in stainless steel trays and banana-leaf-like green leaves covers the floor: rice dishes, sweets, fried items, pulses and fruit. A small oil lamp burns at the front edge. A sign reads KAILASA TIRUVANNAMALAI SRI NITHYANANDA JANMABHUMI. A framed painting hangs at left and a golden canopy sits at right. No people are visible.2024-06-09A photograph of an indoor puja offering arranged on the floor before a decorated deity murti dressed in an orange silk garment. A white placard reads KAILASA TIRUVANNAMALAI SRI NITHYANANDA JANMABHUMI. Brass lamps, kalasha-style vessels and a small crowned figure stand on a red cloth near the murti. Around it, on green, blue and orange cloths, are steel plates and bowls of rice, sweets, fruits, nuts, noodles and savouries, with banana leaves holding limes and fruit. A flame burns in a small lamp in the foreground. A date and caption overlay in the lower right reads 26-Aug-2024 11:58:45 pm, NJB, and samijiiiiii krishna Alankaram. No people are visible.2024-08-27Photograph of an indoor shrine room with a standing statue dressed in an orange silk skirt, red-and-maroon shawl and a flower garland, backed by an ornate gilded arched halo. A white placard in front of the statue reads KAILASA TIRUVANNAMALAI SRI NITHYANANDA JANMABHUMI. Before it sit a seated deity murti decorated with a silver-and-gold cloth, brass lamps, a kalasha-like vessel and a tray of offerings: steel trays of pongal-style rice, a dark dish, white curd rice, bananas, white rice, fried snacks and vadas. Framed paintings hang on the left wall and shelves of brass pots stand behind. No people are visible.2024-10-08October 28 20062006-10-28A photograph from above of a food offering laid out on a terrazzo floor. Stainless steel trays hold plain white rice, a yellow rice dish with green herbs and dark raisins, a brown grain dish, a creamy white curd dish garnished with green coriander, and a dark brown sweet. A steel bowl of yellow chutney sits at the top. Spiral fried snacks are heaped in steel bowls, along with round brown fried balls. A plate holds ripe yellow bananas and a piece of coconut. The trays sit on a green cloth edged with gold and an orange cloth with gold zari borders. The bottom right of the image carries a timestamp reading 10-Aug-2024 5:00:26 am and an address in Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu. No people are visible and no a person candidate appears.2024-10-08A top-down photograph of a ritual food offering spread across a red and cream woven mat with green leaf and orange flower motifs. Many silver and steel bowls hold rice dishes, fried vadas, round sweet laddus in brown, white and yellow, a mound of golden lentil-like sweet, nuts, sugar candies and mixed savouries. A brass plate holds bananas and a block of jaggery, and steel bowls hold red pomegranates and apples with oranges. A red and gold silk cloth and a mango leaf bundle sit at the upper right, and a small book titled Glory of the Divine Mother lies at the top left. No people are visible; this is an offering arrangement.2009-09-25A photograph of an offering spread laid out on a striped cloth of pink, teal, blue and white, arranged on the floor of a hall. Dozens of small round leaf or palm-leaf bowls hold varied food: fruits including a whole green gourd, lemons, a mango, bananas, a pomegranate and small berries, plus fried snacks, sweets, dal and grain preparations, pickles and sprouted legumes. Four larger mounds of rice dishes sit on banana leaves in the foreground, including yellow turmeric rice and green herbed rice. A low wooden stool and a yellow-painted wall edge are visible at the top of the frame. No people are visible. A date stamp in the lower right reads 11-Jan-2026 9:41:31 am Salem.2026-01-11A photograph of a long buffet counter set up for an Annadanam breakfast, with stainless steel chafing trays holding various dishes: a yellow lentil or dal, a brown vegetable curry with green beans, a yellow rice dish, plain white rice, and a large tray of vegetable rice with carrots and peas in the foreground. Serving ladles rest in several trays. The counter is covered in gold-coloured panels, with a brass rail and posts for queue control on the right and a red office chair and yellow stool at the left. No people are visible in the scene. A timestamp overlay in the lower right reads 6 Jan 2026 11:15:47 am.Photo 99188802022-05-01 +1 copiesA photograph of an indoor hall with bare concrete floor and a row of rows of rows of small white-rimmed paper plates arranged on striped pink, blue, green and purple woven mats in the foreground. The plates hold portions of grains, pulses, sweets and food offerings. Behind them, a deity murti in gold clothing sits on a gilded throne with a yellow cloth and pink drape, flanked by a white-and-gold carved backdrop. A white placard reads KAILASA RAJAPALAYAM. No people are visible in the frame.2025-03-01A photograph taken from above of a large grid of stainless steel bowls on the floor, arranged in rows on a red cloth with a striped woven mat at the bottom edge. The bowls hold an array of food offerings for a 108 nivedyam: fried savouries and snacks such as murukku, sev and chakli, sweets and laddus, dried fruits, cut carrots, lemons, boiled rice dishes in yellow and white, and other prepared foods. At the top edge, partly visible, are a red silk garment and draped garlands of white jasmine, with a brass lamp at the left edge. Behind the offerings the floor of a temple shrine is visible. No people are shown.2024-07-21