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An open book lies on a light surface, showing two facing pages of densely printed Sanskrit text in Devanagari and Tamil-script style lines. The page headers read 'Pujavidhanam' on the left and 'Surya Narayana Puja' on the right, with page numbers 162 and 163. The paper is aged and yellowed with worn edges and numbered verse markers. No people are visible, and no a person candidate appears in the scene.

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January 13 20142014-01-13Rare archival collection1995 - Volunteering in Ramakrishna Mutt in Mylapore, Chennai1996 - Puja Manual Handwritten by HDHPhotograph of an open, worn bundle of old printed pages lying on a pale grey cloth against a white backdrop. Two sections of yellowed, deckled-edge paper are spread open, showing dense Tamil-script body text in black ink with a heading at the top of each page. The book's cover boards are visible behind the pages, stained and fraying. No people are present.2011-10-24October 24 20112011-10-24A handwritten scan of a page from a childhood puja manual, written in red and blue ink on aged paper. The top section, headed with Tamil script for a stotram, contains red handwritten verses in Tamil script with a Guru Brahma prayer line, underlined words and a purple bird-shaped mark at the upper left. A small pencil-written label reading Dhyana mantra appears at the left margin. Below a dividing line, blue and black handwritten lines list Tamil mantras with notes for flowers such as white flowers and red flowers, followed by a Tamil attribution line for a Vishnu sahasranama style text. No physical people are visible.A scan of an open handwritten notebook with aged cream paper and a dark cover edge, showing a Tamil-script puja manual written in black ink with red and green colour-coded lines. Left page contains a heading and sections of mantras in red and blue ink; right page shows numbered sections, a small hand-drawn illustration of a clenched fist with a pointing finger at lower right, and mantra text. No people are present.Rare archival collectionA photograph of an open printed book held up against a dark background, showing two pages of ritual instructions. The page is headed with Sanskrit-style Devanagari title text reading Surya Narayana Puja, followed by Devanagari verses and a Tamil-script section with the same heading transliterated. The paper is cream-coloured with slightly uneven lighting and dark ink. No people are visible.2014-01-13Rare archival collectionAn open old paperback book held up by a hand at the lower left, photographed against a white cloth. The yellowed pages carry Tamil printed text: the left page lists biographical details in a two-column table, and the right page has a decorative dotted border around a devotional prayer. No people are visible apart from the hand.2011-10-24