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A photograph from above of a festive offering spread laid on a red cloth over patterned red and gold mats. Two large steel trays of fresh fruit sit at the top corners, including grapes, oranges, apples, a white melon, and a dragon fruit on the right. Centre top, a banana leaf holds cooked rice, sweets, corn cobs, fried items and small bowls of curries and chutneys. Below, two rows of small round metal bowls hold dry fruits, nuts, sweets, honey, ghee-like oils, milky puddings, and grains, arranged in neat rows. No people are visible and no portrait or deity is shown.

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Overhead view of a large naivedyam offering laid out on a white cloth over a green banana leaf, with a red and gold patterned runner beside it. Dozens of small steel bowls hold sweets, savouries, nuts, dried fruits, puffed snacks, and fried items in yellow, orange, brown and white tones. Larger steel bowls and a wooden tray hold whole fresh fruits including apples, oranges, pears, pomelo, dragon fruit, mangosteen, lychee, grapes and bananas. No people are visible, and no person in the image is identified.2021-07-23KAILASA SAN JOSE, USA on 3/11/20212021-03-11 +1 copiesMahashivaratri 2021Overhead photo of a large ritual spread of food offerings laid out in rows on a white cloth over a red and gold patterned mat. Dozens of small stainless steel and brass bowls hold naivedyam items such as sweets, nuts, dried fruits, seeds, savouries, rice, fried snacks and vegetable dishes. A green coconut and a golden tray of mixed fresh fruits sit at the upper right. A brass plate and lamp are visible at the top edge. No people are visible.2021-11-04A three-panel collage of a Hindu temple offering. The top panel shows a red cloth laid with bowls of fresh fruit, a banana-leaf plate of rice, corn, fried snacks and curries, and many small bowls of sweets, nuts, dried fruit and grains. The bottom-left panel shows three ornately dressed deity murti seated on a gold-yellow throne, garlanded with flowers, with the same offerings arranged before them. The bottom-right panel shows a pale yellow-walled shrine room where a shaved-headed priest in white dhoti with ash marks on his forehead sits near a row of seated devotees, several in white traditional clothing, one in an orange jacket, one in a white shirt and one in a black shirt, all facing the deities with a tray of flowers and a brass lamp nearby. Framed pictures line the wall.Kailasa in tharamangalam 23 july 2021KAILASA Tharamangalam 10 Sep 2021Overhead photo of a ritual food offering spread on a red and gold embroidered cloth. Many small steel bowls hold fruits including grapes, red apples, blueberries, cherries, lemons, almonds, dates, dried figs, pecans and sweets, with stainless steel plates of bananas, a whole papaya, yellow sweet balls and fried dough pieces, a yellow curry, and orange-yellow fruit garnished with yellow flowers. No people are visible; the arrangement appears to be a naivedyam offering.2024-06-09Overhead photo of a Diwali naivedyam offering laid on a red cloth on a stone floor. Many dishes sit on silver trays and in bowls and plastic containers: rice preparations, bananas, apples, oranges, pomegranate, pears, pecans, walnuts, dates, dried fruit, sliced vegetables, and a green pumpkin and yellow squash. Small terracotta oil lamps with lit wicks surround the arrangement. Behind it, a red cloth is draped on a table, with a brass plate of red and yellow flowers and a blue embroidered cloth at the left edge. No people are visible.2020-11-14KAILASA OKLAHOMA, USA on 11/13/20202020-11-13Mahashivaratri 2021KAILASA SINGAPORE on 1/7/20212021-01-07 +1 copies