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Indoor ritual gathering on a tiled floor in a small room with pink walls. A bare-chested man in white dhoti with a gold border sits cross-legged at left, facing a spread of banana leaves and metal bowls heaped with fruit, sweets, flowers and small oil lamps. Several women in saris sit around the spread: one in orange, others in yellow and blue, some wearing garlands and bangles. A framed portrait garlanded with flowers stands on the floor at left. Copper pots and a steel vessel sit on a blue table behind the women. Two seated women in the foreground watch the offerings.

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Test PicturesA small golden-walled room with a barred window, where a group of devotees sits on the floor for a ritual. A woman in a cream saree with a maroon blouse and glasses holds her hands together over a brass plate of flowers and offerings, while a girl in red beside her reaches toward the plate. Two older women in white and orange sit nearby, and a girl in pink with a teal skirt sits in prayer with her palms joined. A man in white dhoti and glasses on the right sits with his hands folded in namaskar. Brass lamps and steel containers sit on a red platform in the foreground, with a lit oil lamp at the lower left.2024-07-10A group of women sit cross-legged on a striped floor mat during a Navaratri puja at an indoor setting with yellow walls and blue draped fabric decorated with marigold garlands. A large printed portrait of a man with a red-orange turban and saffron-orange clothing, a rudraksha mala and a flower garland is placed on a raised seat at the back left, labelled with the printed caption Paramahamsa Nithyananda, not a physical person. Many brass oil lamps are lit along the mat, with banana leaf plates holding fruit, sweets, kumkum, flowers and betel. On the right a small deity murti stands under an arch on a draped altar. Women in colourful saris and salwar kameez, with bangles and jewellery, offer lamps and prepare the leaves; one small child in white reaches toward an offering. Timestamp reads 26 September 2025 19:08.2025-09-26A photograph of a devotional gathering inside a small orange-walled hall with a golden arched shrine. At the shrine, a priest with bare upper body and white dhoti stands facing the deity murti decorated with flower garlands, with oil lamps before it and a portrait in an ornate frame on the right wall. Several seated devotees in saris, including a woman in blue and red, a woman in a green-and-yellow sari and women in orange and mustard tones, sit on the floor with hands joined in prayer. A woman in yellow and patterned skirt stands at the right near the portrait, and children sit on the floor among offerings and fruit on mats.A photograph of a seated group of devotees in a yellow-walled hall performing a puja on colourful mats. Women in white saris and white clothing sit with palms pressed together in prayer, and a young woman in the foreground with a long braid faces away from the camera. Brass plates hold offerings of flowers, turmeric-yellow petals, betel leaves and small lamps, with a small kalasha-like vessel and oil lamps nearby. On the wall hangs a large framed painting of a robed saint seated beside a kneeling figure, and a smaller framed picture of a deity hangs at upper right. Roughly ten to fifteen people are visible in the room.A photograph of women seated on the floor in a decorated tent-like shrine during an evening puja. A large printed portrait of a smiling man with a rust-red turban, red-orange robe and rudraksha-style beads is mounted against a blue and gold draped backdrop, garlanded with marigolds and fairy lights; the portrait is a depiction, not a physical person. Beside it stands a small deity murti on a draped table with brass lamps. In front, women in red, pink, green and blue saris sit on striped mats with banana leaves holding fruit, flowers, turmeric, kumkum and lit brass lamps, while women at right make offerings. Dress colours are tied to each woman as described, and the setting reads as a Navarathiri-style puja.2025-09-26A photograph of a hall with rows of seated women in sarees on both sides of a central aisle, many with hands pressed together in namaskar. Before each person sits a plate with flowers, fruit, and small offerings. Red curtains hang on the left wall, ceiling fans overhead, and at the far end a shrine area with lit oil lamps and a deity murti is visible. The scene suggests a puja or satsang gathering, with the event's central figure not clearly visible in the frame.2011-03-14Seven women and one man sit in a row on a tiled floor in a small orange-walled shrine room, hands pressed together in namaskar. In the foreground a woman in a checked red-and-grey saree and a woman in white with a red border sit near a brass vessel. A woman in a lavender saree and another in orange sit before a red-draped altar holding a small oil lamp, a brass plate of fruit and flower petals. Behind them a garlanded deity murti stands within a gold arch framed by a blue backdrop, with a standing garlanded statue of a saint in pink robes at left and a peacock-feather decoration at right. A signboard reads KAILASA AVADI beside the altar, and the floor is scattered with petals.2024-02-12Feb 5 2022 sripuram2022-02-05Feb 12 2022 sripuramDecember 19 2022 sripuram2022-12-19A photograph of a home ritual in a yellow-walled room with a white marble floor. A bare-chested priest with grey hair, wearing a white dhoti with a gold border and a rudraksha-style necklace, sits on the floor holding a flame on a lamp in one hand and a brass bell in the other. In front of him are brass plates with flowers and fruit, small oil lamps, a brass vessel, coconut halves and a bowl of nuts. A seated woman in yellow holds a small child on her lap, a young girl in a yellow outfit sits with palms pressed together, and a bearded man in a dark green shirt and white dhoti sits on an orange cloth. A green and red hanging with an elephant motif is on the left, and framed pictures hang on the walls. A timestamp reads 3 Apr 2025 19:07:10 Chennai Kailasa Tondaiarpet.2025-03-04