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A seated older man in a cream shirt with a small brown diamond print and grey trousers arranges terracotta mud lamps on the floor of a temple hall. He holds a lamp and places cotton wicks into the dishes; a stack of more lamps sits beside him. Behind him are a blue bag of Power cake and powder, a gilded ornate console table and a staircase. A blue timestamp and caption on the lower right read Deepam Brahmotsavam, Bharani Deepam, Mud Lamps, Kailasa Madurai, Devalaya. No a person is visible in this image.

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A smiling woman in a bright pink shawl sits cross-legged on a tiled floor in a temple hall, arranging brown clay oil lamps with white cotton wicks in front of her. Scissors and yellow and blue plastic packets lie nearby. Behind her, a gilded shrine with a deity murti and red velvet curtains fills the hall, and a leopard-print sofa sits to the right. A caption overlay reads Deepam Brahmotsavam, Bharani Deepam, Mud Lamps, with the date 2 Dec 2025.A woman in orange ochre robes and an orange head wrap sits cross-legged on a woven mat, arranging terracotta oil lamps with cotton wicks. She wears rudraksha beads, glasses and a tilak on her forehead, and her bare feet rest on the floor. Stacks of unlit clay lamps surround her on the mat. Behind her, a framed poster shows seated saffron-clad figures before a crowd, and a purple-and-gold patterned cloth lies on the floor. A timestamp overlay reads 2 Dec 2025 11:04:17 pm, Deepam Brahmotsavam, Bharani Deepam, Mud Lamps.A woman with glasses and a red bindi sits cross-legged on the floor of a hall, wearing a cream kurta, a pale blue shawl and pale blue trousers, bangles on her wrists, one hand raised to her chin as she looks upward. In front of her are stacks of unlit terracotta lamps, brown decorated clay oil lamps with cotton wicks, bottles of Cycle Pure lamp oil and a pile of cotton wicks. Behind her a wall display shows framed photographs and a large poster of a man in saffron and rudraksha garlands performing a ritual, and a leopard-print seat sits at left. A small sign on the wall reads Scan Now with a WhatsApp number. Caption overlay reads Deepam Brahmotsavam, Bharani Deepam, Mud Lamps.A woman with grey hair pulled back and a red bindi sits on a granite ledge, dressed in an orange sari with a gold border and a brown bead necklace. She is arranging small terracotta oil lamps and wicks on the stone, tucking white cotton wicks into the lamp bowls with her hands. A square terracotta lamp sits among the round ones, a gold-coloured metal bowl lies in the foreground, and a blue bucket holding metal tools and a stone linga-shaped piece stands behind her beside a fence and rows of stone lingas. Four lamps are prepared on the ledge, with a few more scattered nearby. Several people are not visible.2021-06-01 +1 copiesNovember 17 20132013-11-17 +1 copiesA bare-chested, grey-haired man in rimless glasses sits cross-legged on a red and orange patterned mat on a white marble floor, wearing a maroon dhoti with white border and a thin sacred thread across his chest. A rudraksha-style pendant hangs on a cord at his neck. He is stringing or arranging yellow marigold garlands and handling pink flower petals with both hands. A brass tray of yellow flowers sits beside him, with a red-flower bag and a steel tumbler nearby, and a wooden door and a dark chair are in the background. A timestamp in the corner reads 17 Feb 2025 21:23:35 Chennai Kailasa Tondiorpet.2025-02-17A photograph of a yellow-walled hall where devotees sit on the floor and in chairs during a puja. In the foreground, a bare-chested man in white dhoti with folded hands sits before a brass plate of offerings, and a second bare-chested man in white dhoti sits beside a lit oil lamp on an orange cloth. Other seated people in white dhotis and a man in a striped sweater watch nearby. Oil lamps, fruit, flowers and brass vessels are arranged on mats. A timestamp reads 21 Dec 2025 8:28:16 pm, Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu.2025-12-21A photograph of a large hall with a glossy white marble floor where many women sit in rows on the floor, holding lit oil lamps and small diyas toward a white deity murti seated at left under a red draped backdrop. 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