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A smiling young boy sits cross-legged on the floor beside a wooden lattice-backed seat, wearing a checked beige and brown school uniform with a maroon lanyard reading Maharishi International Residential School, a sandalwood mark and red bindi on his forehead. In front of him is a brass puja tray holding a black stone Ganesha, small brass deity murti including a standing figure and a seated figure, a black oval lingam-like stone, a copper kalasha pot, small metal cups and a brass bell. A brass aarti plate with lit oil lamps and flower petals sits to his left, and a brass abhishekam basin fills the foreground.

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A young boy in a checked short-sleeved shirt with a red-and-white lanyard sits cross-legged on a patterned rug, pouring water from a copper vessel over a small brass deity figure on a brass tray during a home puja. Behind him, a large wall portrait shows a smiling figure in a saffron-orange turban and robe, wearing a red-and-white flower garland and rudraksha-style beads, holding a trident. Brass oil lamps with lit flames stand on a wooden cabinet, and a hand of an adult in white is visible at the right edge.2024-07-11A smiling young boy in a brown and beige checked school uniform with a brown skirt sits on the floor holding a copper pot. He wears a white sandalwood paste mark and red bindi on his forehead and a red-and-white lanyard around his neck. Before him on a brass tray are a small bronze figure of a standing deity, a dark stone figure, and small brass cups. 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Yellow flower petals lie on the tray and in metal bowls at the edges of the frame. The scene suggests a daily puja or abhishekam at a small shrine.2021-12-26February 21 20132013-02-21A young boy in an orange saffron dhoti and shawl, with white vibhuti markings on his forehead and shoulders and rudraksha beads around his neck, pours water from a brass vessel over a dark stone shivalingam set on a black yoni-peetha base during abhishekam. A golden seated statue of a figure with a raised hand and a golden turban stands behind on a pedestal, and a gold trident leans against the wall to the left.2024-10-21A young boy with bare chest and white dhoti bordered in gold stands at a black Nandi statue on a gold-painted base, pouring liquid from a steel vessel onto its head during abhishekam. He wears a rudraksha-style beaded necklace and white sacred ash marks on his arms and forehead. 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