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Photograph of a ritual offering arrangement on a red-cloth floor in a temple hall. In the foreground, several woven baskets with pink and maroon borders are filled with coconut halves, yellow and red marigold garlands, green leaves and bundles of grain stalks, set on a magenta cloth. Scattered rice, flower petals and small brass bowls lie nearby. Behind, several people in orange and saffron clothing, including a woman in an orange sari and a man with a purple headcloth and white garment, sit observing. A green canopy and a yellow umbrella appear in the background.

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April 14 20182018-04-14A ritual scene during a temple event. In the left foreground a man in a white dhoti with a gold-bordered cloth holds a lit oil lamp in his hand, its flame bright. In front of him, several decorated pots are arranged with bundles of yellow marigold garlands, red roses, green leaves, sheaves of golden grain and halved coconuts. Behind, blurred figures wearing saffron-orange head cloths and robes watch the ceremony, and a woman in a purple garment raises her arm at the right edge. The scene suggests an aarti or puja offering with flowers and grain, but no deity or a person is clearly visible.2018-04-14Foreground view of ritual offerings arranged on a pink cloth: several decorated kalasha-style pots wrapped in striped patterned bands, each topped with coconut halves and draped with yellow marigold garlands and red roses, with green leaves and wheat or grass stalks. A straw broom rests at lower left. In the background, several people sit in an ashram or temple hall; a man on the right with a purple head-wrap, bare upper body and beaded necklaces, and a few figures in orange and saffron clothing, one wearing a rudraksha-style mala. Their faces are partly out of focus.2018-04-14Priests in white dhotis and ritual attire perform a puja at a decorated altar within a temple hall. A man in white on the left holds a silver bowl, while another priest in white with a gold chain and a bare upper body waves incense smoke over a purple-cloth-covered platform. The platform holds yellow and red flower garlands, coconuts, bananas and decorated kalasha-like pots. A fire pit with offerings sits in the foreground, and a red and green canopy with floral garlands frames a deity murti.2018-04-14A ritual abhishekam in a hall with a red-carpeted floor. Several men in white dhotis with gold borders stand and bend around a deity murti under a red and gold canopy draped with marigold garlands. Ritual offerings of fruit, flower-garlanded kalasha pots and brass vessels fill the foreground. To the left, a group of young people in saffron/orange robes and rudraksha malas plays drums, with one standing figure holding a long pole. The white-clad priests have bare upper bodies and sacred threads, and the scene is decorated with banana leaves and yellow marigolds.2018-04-14April 14 20182018-04-14April 14 20182018-04-14April 14 20182018-04-14 +2 copiesApril 14 20182018-04-14A temple ritual inside a pillared hall decorated with marigold garlands and red-orange cloth on the floor. In the centre, a bare-chested priest in white dhoti with a sash holds a brass pot aloft near a decorated altar, while several white-clad priests attend nearby. At left, a row of sannyasis in orange robes and orange head wraps play drums and ritual instruments. Brass kalashas and offerings of fruit and flowers sit on the floor, and a palanquin-like shrine with garlands stands in the background. A man in white dhoti walks across the foreground. Several attendees are present but the principal figures are priests and sannyasis, with no clearly identifiable a person figure.2018-04-14April 14 20182018-04-14April 14 20182018-04-14