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Black-and-white street photograph of a dense crowd filling a town road during a temple procession. On the right, a tall tiered chariot (ratha) decorated with garlands and carved panels carries figures on its upper platform, and a long rope-hauled chariot follows behind. Police officers in khaki uniforms and caps line the front of the crowd. On the left, a multi-storey building has spectators crowding its balconies and roof, and shopfronts display signboards and banners. A white domed shrine structure stands in the middle distance, with a hill rising behind the buildings on the left. Many people in dhotis and saris fill the foreground.

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Old sepia photograph of a temple car procession in a street. A tiered, multi-storeyed wooden ratha with pillared niches and a canopy finial is pulled through a dense crowd of hundreds of people, mostly men and women in white clothing, many holding black umbrellas against the sun. Low hills rise behind the chariot, and small white buildings and utility poles line the roadside. The image appears to show a ratha procession of the Arunachaleshwara temple, a chariot festival setting rather than any individual portrait.A dense street procession fills a town road lined with multi-storey shops and buildings strung with bunting and flags. Hundreds of men in white dhotis and shirts and women in colourful saris press together under a large white ceremonial umbrella (canopy) and several decorated parasols in red, orange and green. Red and orange flags are raised above the crowd. A small white van is visible at right, and devotees stand on balconies and at shop entrances watching. The scene suggests a ratha or procession route; no individual can be clearly identified as a person.2006-09-241978 - Arulmigu Arunachaleshwara Temple1978 - Arulmigu Arunachaleshwara Temple2017-11-20 +2 copiesDecember 20 20112011-12-20A black-and-white scanned photograph of Arunachaleshwara Temple in Tiruvannamalai. A tall gopuram tower with tiers of sculpted figures stands at left, and a smaller tower rises behind it. At right, a large ornate temple chariot with a tiered roof and decorated pillars is pulled through a dense crowd of people gathered in the foreground, with a hill rising in the hazy background. No individual person can be clearly identified, and no candidate for a person is visible.2017-11-20 +1 copiesA dense crowd fills a busy street in a town, seen from an elevated rooftop vantage point. Most people wear white shirts and white dhotis, and many carry small orange and red flags. Several large umbrellas with red, orange and gold fringes, plus a white canopy, are held above the procession. Shops line both sides, with a white van at the right edge. Shop signs and banners hang overhead, including bunting strung across the street. No individual is clearly identifiable as a person from this distance, so the a person field is unsure.2006-09-24Black-and-white night photograph of a ornate temple chariot procession on a city street in Tiruvannamalai. A tall, tiered ratha is lit with rows of bulbs and carries a large decorated deity murti with a framed face and garlands. Two white horses with ornamented harnesses pull the chariot. Bare-chested men in dhotis and a uniformed policeman walk beside it, some holding lit torches. A dense crowd of devotees fills the foreground, and shopfronts line the street on the right.Kailasa Paramparagatha Arunagiri Yogishwara Adi Arunachala Sarvajnapeetha SamrajyamA dense outdoor street procession in a Tamil town, seen from an upper floor of a building on the left. Hundreds of people in white dhotis and white shirts fill the road, many carrying small orange and red decorated umbrellas or banners on poles. A white van with a red-and-orange flag at the front moves through the crowd, and a man in white stands on its roof. Market stalls, parked motorcycles, bicycles and roadside vendors line the street. Large painted billboards and shop signs rise above, one showing a red stylised logo, and banana-leaf or palm decorations hang from the poles. Palm trees and low buildings appear behind the crowd under an overcast sky.2006-09-24A street procession in a busy Indian town. At the centre, a golden ornamental palanquin with a canopy of orange and gold drapes carries a deity murti adorned with garlands and flowers, set on a red-carpeted platform. Crowds of devotees, many in white dhotis and kurtas, saris and white shirts, walk along the road. Pink and white tassels hang from the palanquin and white and blue flags strung across the street. Shops with signs line both sides, and a vehicle with traffic is visible. Many people are visible, and no single figure is clearly identifiable as a person.2006-09-24December 20 20112011-12-20