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A dense outdoor crowd surges through a street in front of an ornate South Indian temple gopuram-style gateway with painted sculptural figures. Men in white shirts and dhotis, some with white head cloths and sandalwood or vibhuti marks, press forward, while women in saris and salwar are mixed among them. On the right, a decorated temple procession vehicle with a bull mount and a painted deity murti under an ornate arch stands among banana plants. A man in an orange-saffron garment appears at right with a shaved head, and a yellow auto-rickshaw and parked vehicles are visible at left. Blue and white shop signs with Tamil script line the street.

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December 20 20112011-12-20A crowded temple procession moves through a gateway with painted pillars and sculpted figures on the rooftop. Banana plants flank the entrance. At centre, a large ornate processional vehicle carries a decorated deity murti beneath a red and gold radiating halo, with a bull figure in front. Dense crowds surround it: men in white dhotis and a man in a white turban, women in saris, and uniformed police near the vehicle. A yellow vehicle sits at left beside a banner. Many people, in front of a temple gate.2011-12-20A dense crowd of devotees fills a narrow temple street, many in white dhotis and shirts, others in pink and blue saris and salwar. In the centre a man in a white shirt with a rudraksha mala looks ahead among the press. Behind the crowd a golden ceremonial ratha or palanquin, adorned with a bull figure and a colourful canopy, is carried past banana trees and a temple gopuram. Uniformed police officers and orange-robed sadhus are visible among the people. The scene conveys a festival procession at a South Indian temple.2011-12-20December 20 20112011-12-20December 20 20112011-12-20December 20 20112011-12-20A dense crowd of devotees fills a temple gateway during a procession. In the centre, a golden palanquin-style deity vehicle with a decorated golden crown-like canopy and a gilded bull-like figure is carried forward under an arched temple gopuram entrance. Banana plants flank the entrance. In the foreground a man in a pink shirt holds his palms pressed together in anjali, and several men wear white shirts and vibhuti-marked foreheads. Women in saris stand among them. Colourful painted temple carvings, a yellow banner and a pink signboard are visible. The crowd is large, with many people partially visible.2011-12-20December 20 20112011-12-20December 20 20112011-12-20December 20 20112011-12-20A large outdoor street procession crowded with hundreds of people in a Tamil town. In the centre, a man in white shirt and white dhoti stands barefoot on the open platform of an orange tractor, holding a camcorder to his eye. Around him, men in white and devotees in saffron stand packed together, some raising phones and cameras. On the right, an ornate golden chariot or palanquin is decorated with white flower garlands, red and green fabric and hanging bells. Uniformed police officers stand among the crowd. A multi-tiered temple gopuram with painted colourful sculpture rises behind the street, and a banner above shop fronts shows a portrait under the name Sri Arunachaleswara.2011-12-20A dense crowd of men fills a street beneath a colourful temple gopuram-style colonnade with painted ceiling medallions and carved lion brackets. Many men wear white shirts and dhotis, some with vermilion or vibhuti marks. Several decorated processional palanquins or ratha canopies with red, yellow and blue fringed umbrellas are carried through the crowd, and green banana-leaf and palm-frond arches frame the entrance. Above, painted deity figures sit on the temple roof. The scene reads as a temple procession, with no clearly identifiable individual in the foreground.2006-09-24