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A photograph of a temple courtyard with a tall, richly painted gopuram tower in the background, its tiers covered in colourful deity sculptures. In the foreground a man with long dark hair, wearing an orange saffron dhoti and shawl and a rudraksha mala, walks across the paved ground. Beside him a shaved-headed monk in orange robes with his hands folded walks alongside. Another man in white clothing stands at the left edge, and part of a broom-wielding worker is visible. A stone colonnade runs along the right. The appearance of the figure in the centre shows several qualifying cues (long swept-back hair, saffron clothing, rudraksha mala), so he is described as a probable Swamiji in an in-person capacity.

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A photograph of a barefoot man in saffron-orange robes with a sash over his shoulder and a rudraksha mala around his neck walks across the open stone courtyard of a temple. A bald monk in orange robes with hands folded in greeting walks beside him, and another saffron-clad figure stands at right. Behind them rises a tall, richly painted gopuram tower with colourful sculpted figures. On the left, a worker in white clothes sweeps the courtyard with a broom, and a thatched shelter stands at the edge. The scene shows volunteers and ashramites cleaning and inspecting a temple premises during kar seva.2012-05-30A photograph of a temple courtyard in front of a tall, colourfully painted gopuram tower with tiers of figures and ornate finials. A man with long dark hair, wearing a saffron-orange dhoti and shawl with a rudraksha mala, walks forward through the courtyard. Beside him, a shaven-headed sannyasi in orange robes and a second orange-clad monk walk along a pillared corridor. Behind them, a worker in white clothing stands near the temple walls, and a broom and cleaning activity are visible at the left, consistent with a temple cleaning effort. Strong sunlight and a pale stone pavement fill the scene.2012-05-30Outdoor photograph at a South Indian temple courtyard with a tall, richly painted gopuram tower in multicoloured tiers behind. A long-haired man in a saffron-orange dhoti and matching shawl, with a rudraksha mala around his neck, walks forward at the centre, a person candidate by his long swept-back hair, saffron clothing and rudraksha cues. Beside him a shaved-headed man in orange robes stands with hands folded, another orange-clad sannyasi stands at the right, and a man in white dhoti and shirt walks behind on the left. A thatched shelter and stone pillars line the colonnade.2012-05-30May 30 20122012-05-30May 30 20122012-05-30A group of people stands in front of a richly painted, multi-tiered temple gopuram with colourful sculpted figures and a stone entrance. In the foreground, several men in saffron-orange robes and white dhotis and shirts stand together, some with shaved heads, and one seated man in orange clothing sits near the front. Some men wear white ritual clothes and others wear orange garments. The temple arch above shows a painted deity scene. Stone pillars and a covered walkway frame the entrance.2012-05-30Photo 11743791 +1 copiesPhoto 11730486A photograph of a colourful, ornately sculpted South Indian temple gopuram with tiered painted figures and a central relief of a deity on a bull, above a stone-pillared entrance. In front, a crowd of men stands on the temple grounds; several wear saffron/orange robes and others wear white dhotis and shirts, with some holding their hands together in namaskar. The people are in the foreground at the temple entrance, giving the scene a devotional, temple-visit character.2012-05-30May 08 20122012-05-08A photograph of a large South Indian Hindu temple gopuram, its tall tower densely covered with painted and sculpted figures in many colours, rising above a pillared colonnade in the foreground. A white-shirted man walks along the open hall, and a woman in a green sari stands at the right edge near the railings. A few other figures are distant on the far right. Clear blue sky and a bare tree frame the upper left.2012-08-20A photograph of a temple colonnade framing a towering gopuram covered in painted sculptures of deities and figures. Several men in saffron-orange dhotis and shawls walk along the stone pillared corridor in silhouette, some wearing rudraksha or bead malas, and one holds a lamp-like object. A man in white clothes walks at the left edge, and a figure in a white shirt stands at the lower left. Red and white seating stretches across the courtyard below.2012-05-08