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A row of smiling women in orange and red saris with gold borders stand side by side, holding food offerings in their hands. Several wear rudraksha malas and have white vibhuti lines on their foreheads. The woman at right in a red-gold sari and dark rudraksha mala smiles while holding a ball of food. A younger woman in the centre with a red bindi and red beaded necklace also holds food. Behind them, others in orange robes and white-clad figures stand in a bright hall.

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A photograph of four women in a row, each holding a small mound of pale food (likely offering rice or pinda) in their cupped hands, during a ritual. They wear orange, saffron and red saris and dark rudraksha malas; several have white sacred ash lines on their foreheads, and the woman at the right has a red kumkum dot. Behind them, other women in orange saris stand in line. The background is a bright indoor hall with a blurred interior.2016-08-02A photograph of ashram women in orange and red sannyasini-style saris with rudraksha malas, preparing food offerings during a ritual. In the centre a smiling woman with hair in a bun and white vertical tilak with a red bindi holds a mound of pale yellow food in both hands. Beside her a woman in orange with a red border holds a similar lump of food, and another woman at left, also in orange, shapes food with her fingers. Behind them other devotees in orange stand in a hall with red curtains.2016-08-02March 14 20172017-03-14August 02 20162016-08-02A ceremonial scene inside a hall with pale walls and a red curtain in the background. Several women in saffron-orange sarees with yellow borders stand close together. The woman in front on the right wears a white forehead band with a red dot, a long rudraksha mala and a pendant, and she is offering yellow-orange grains or prasad from her cupped hands to another woman whose face is near her hand. Other women with rudraksha malas wait beside them, holding similar yellow offerings. Devotees are partly visible in the distance.2013-05-20August 02 20162016-08-02March 14 20172017-03-14September 30 20162016-09-30January 01 20192019-01-01August 02 20162016-08-02July 10 20132013-07-10 +2 copiesIndoor devotional gathering in a temple hall with pink walls and framed pictures. In the foreground, a woman in a rust-red sari with a black rudraksha mala and a gold pendant eats or receives food from her fingers while smiling. Beside her, a younger woman in an orange sari and rudraksha mala opens her mouth to receive, and another woman in a maroon sari with a rudraksha mala and gold pendant leans in to assist. A woman in an orange sari with a vertical tilak on her forehead sits at the lower right. Behind them, several people in orange and rust-coloured garments, some bare-backed in dhotis, stand or move about. Three women and a few others are visible; no a person candidate is clearly identifiable.2016-11-11 +1 copies