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A crowd of devotees stands in a line at the entrance of a temple gateway with pink and cream pillars, a wooden beam with carved brackets, and hanging mango-leaf or grass festoons. Several people press their palms together in namaskar, and one woman in a green sari with white border has her hands folded. Men wear white shirts and checked or red shirts, and women wear saris in pink and orange. A yellow metal gate and a framed map or sign stand to the right, and an ornate gold-painted screen is on the left. A small sign above reads a Tamil label. The scene suggests darshan queuing at a temple.

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November 01 20062006-11-01Photograph of a crowded temple entrance with a dense group of devotees and onlookers standing in front of a blue-painted gopuram-style doorway with carved cream pillars and wooden beams hung with dried leaf garlands and a red circular medallion. Several men in white dhotis, a man in a green lungi with a red shawl and gold chain, a man in yellow cloth, and others in shirts stand close together, some with sacred ash or tilak on their foreheads. A sign reading ஸ்ரீ சரவணபவ (Sri Saravanabhava) hangs above the inner passage. No figure is clearly identifiable as the a person in this crowd.2006-11-05November 05 20062006-11-05May 18 20122012-05-18A dense crowd of devotees stands inside a colourfully painted temple hall with blue pillars, white elephant friezes and painted panels across the ceiling. Most people wear white or pastel clothing, many women in saris, and a few men have tilak marks on their foreheads. In the centre, a person in white stands near a brightly lit inner shrine with a golden doorway and lamps. The scene suggests a temple gathering or darshan.2006-10-25January 16 20182018-01-16January 07 20122012-01-07August 03 20092009-08-03A dense outdoor crowd of men and some women stands at a temple courtyard, mostly in white shirts and dhotis, with tilak marks on several foreheads. In the foreground, men in white shirts face toward the right, and a gold-coloured shrine structure with flower garlands of pink and white is visible at the right edge. Temple gopuram and columns frame the background, and a few people in orange and coloured clothing stand farther back.2009-08-06A photograph of a crowd walking through a stone temple colonnade with carved pillars and a dark doorway opening onto a distant courtyard. In the centre, a man in an orange turban and saffron robe, wearing a long garland of yellow and white flowers and a rudraksha-style bead necklace, walks with palms pressed together in greeting. Around him, devotees in white dhotis and white shirts, a woman in a blue sari with yellow blouse, and a bare-chested man in orange dhoti and bead mala move through the procession. Loudspeakers are mounted on the pillars. The visible people number more than twenty.2006-09-24October 25 20062006-10-25November 05 20062006-11-05