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Night procession with a man in an orange sleeveless robe on the left, long dark hair swept back, holding a silver aarti plate with a flame toward the deity behind him. Around him, men in white dhotis and shirts stand with palms pressed together in namaskar. Behind them, a decorated palanquin or deity vehicle is draped with green, yellow and red garlands and flowers, with a gold canopy. A man in a white shirt with a red shawl and another with a grey beard and white shirt stand in the foreground with hands folded. Lanterns and lights illuminate the open courtyard, with more gilded palanquins at the right edge.

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December 23 20062006-12-23December 23 20062006-12-23 +2 copiesDecember 23 20062006-12-23Night photograph of a procession. A figure in an orange saffron robe with a long rudraksha mala raises a lit oil lamp high in the right hand while holding a silver handbell in the left, smiling. Behind them, several men in white ritual clothes stand with palms pressed together in anjali. Two decorated palanquins or ratha-style canopies with gold frames and colourful floral garlands carry deity murti, visible behind the crowd. The night sky is dark with smoke drifting from the flame.2006-12-23 +1 copiesNight procession scene. A figure with long dark hair and an orange saffron robe, wearing a long mala of rudraksha beads, holds a silver aarti lamp with a bright flame in one hand and a silver bell or vessel in the other, performing aarti. Behind him, a row of men in white dhotis and white shirts stand with palms pressed together in anjali. Beside them, a decorated palanquin or ratha carries a deity murti adorned with garlands of green, red and yellow flowers. Ornate gold-framed canopies and smoke rise in the dark background under a string of lights.2006-12-23December 23 20062006-12-23Night-time photograph of a procession at an outdoor temple setting. In the foreground, a man with long swept-back dark hair wears a saffron-orange robe and a rudraksha mala, holding a silver aarti lamp with a bright flame and rising smoke in both hands. Behind him, a line of men in white dhotis and shirts stand with palms pressed together in prayer. To the right, a bearded man in white folds his hands. Beyond them, a deity murti or procession figure is decorated with multicoloured garlands and draped in a red and blue cloth on an ornate golden palanquin, with a golden arch behind it. Small white wooden posts and concrete blocks mark the ground.2006-12-23Night procession photograph. In the centre-left, a man in an orange sleeveless robe with long, swept-back dark hair and a rudraksha mala holds a silver arati lamp with a visible flame toward a deity murti in a decorated palanquin behind him. Surrounding devotees in white dhotis and orange shawls press palms together. Tall brass torches with flames stand at the left and right edges, and a garlanded deity murti sits under an ornate golden arch in the background.2006-12-23A night procession at a temple in front of a palanquin carrying a deity murti decorated with a large garland of orange and red flowers. In the foreground a bare-backed man with long, swept-back dark hair wears an orange shawl and holds a small flame or aarti lamp toward the murti, as a worshipper. Around him men in white dhotis and orange shawls press palms together in prayer, and two tall brass oil lamps with flames stand in the frame. Incense smoke rises in the background under gold arched canopies, with a crowd of devotees behind.2006-12-23 +1 copiesNight procession with a central figure in an orange-saffron robe with long dark hair and a rudraksha mala, holding a lit camphor flame on a silver dish over a small bell in the right hand while the left hand is raised. Behind him a deity murti with a garland and gold-framed palanquin is carried in procession. Surrounding devotees in white shirts and dhotis, some with orange shawls and hands folded in prayer, stand near lit oil lamps on tall brass stands. Smoke rises in the dark background. A woman in a white blouse with a dark sari and a child stand at left.2006-12-23 +1 copiesDecember 23 20062006-12-23December 23 20062006-12-23 +2 copies