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A photograph of a young boy standing outdoors on a hillside with green trees, rocky outcrops and a small temple shrine on the crest behind him. He wears a red-pink cloth draped over his head and shoulders, bare-chested with white vertical marks on his chest and arms, and red and white beaded malas around his neck. He raises his right hand palm outward in a blessing gesture and holds a wooden staff topped with a yellow cloth flag in his left hand. The caption on a yellow label at the lower left reads Guru Poornima 1988, July 29th, 10 years of age, 8th Chaturmasya. The boy is a child in saffron-toned sannyasi-style dress, and the appearance-based cues are not sufficient to name anyone.

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A vintage photograph, labelled in the top right as "8th Chaturmasya 10 years of age July 29, 1988", shows a young boy standing outdoors on a green hillside. He wears a red-orange cloth draped over his head and shoulders, a red-orange waist wrap, a red beaded mala necklace, and white ash markings on his chest and forehead. He raises his right hand in blessing, with a mala on his wrist, and holds a wooden staff topped with a yellow cloth. Behind him a small temple structure sits on a rocky hilltop above a valley of trees and buildings. Whether this child is a person cannot be determined from appearance alone.2023-07-03A young sannyasi sits on a rocky outcrop in a green hilly landscape, wearing a bright red-orange cloth draped over his head and body, with a rudraksha mala and a white-marked forehead. He raises his right hand in a blessing gesture and holds a long staff topped with a yellow-orange cloth or flag in his left hand. Behind him, a small temple structure crowns a distant hilltop under a hazy sky, with scrubby trees and a village visible below. a person: the figure's long hair and ornate orange-red attire match the page's claim about the sanyasi in this 1988 Tiruvannamalai setting, though the face is not clearly visible enough to be certain.A young boy stands outdoors on a rocky hillside, facing the camera with his right hand raised in a blessing gesture. He wears a red-orange cloth wrapped over his head like a hood and a matching orange-red waist cloth, and he is bare-chested with a beaded necklace. In his left hand he holds a yellow staff or danda. Behind him rises a rocky hill topped with a small temple structure, surrounded by green trees and distant town buildings under a pale sky.ATA Eyewitness Sharing Kannan ayya +2 copiesSeptember 28 20222022-09-281988 - Coronation as 233rd Guru Mahasannidhanam of Kanchee Kailasa SarvajnapeethamPavalaKundru PersecutionA black-and-white archival photograph of a young boy seated in lotus pose on a spotted animal hide, bare-chested and wearing a white dhoti with a patterned waist cloth. He has a sacred thread-like rudraksha mala draped across his chest, white horizontal stripes painted on his chest, arms and shoulders, and a vertical tilak on his forehead. His hands rest on his knees in a meditative posture against a plain backdrop. Overlaid white text in the upper right reads 10th Chaturmasya, 12 years of age, July 7, 1990. The boy's appearance is consistent with the page's reference to the presence of a person, though the image is a historical print of a child and not clearly identifiable from appearance alone.2023-07-03September 28 20222022-09-28A colour photograph labelled "1st Chaturmasya, 3 years of age, July 17, 1981" shows a small bare-chested child in saffron-orange sannyasi cloth wrapped around the body and a saffron cloth draped over the head. He wears a long rudraksha mala across the chest, has a red tilak on the forehead, and holds a tall bamboo staff with a pink cloth flag near the top. He stands barefoot on dry dirt ground in front of a green hill, with a pink-walled building, a white house, trees and a utility pole behind him. A small person in red is visible in the far background. The child is a young boy in an outdoor setting; the caption attributes the photo to his first Chaturmasya but does not name him.2023-07-03September 28 20222022-09-28A photograph of a young bare-chested man sitting cross-legged in meditation with eyes closed on a flat rock beside rushing white water, beneath a large overhanging rock ledge. He wears a pink-red cloth wrapped around his waist and legs, and long multi-strand rudraksha mala beads hang across his chest. His hands rest together in his lap. A yellow caption box in the lower left reads 'Guru Poornima 1993, July 31 / 15 years of age / 13th Chaturmasya'. The scene is a riverside cave setting with a white cloth spread beneath him.2022-09-28