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September 08 20152015-09-08September 08 20152015-09-08 +1 copiesOutdoor photo beside a huge banyan tree with many hanging aerial roots and a dense canopy. A long garland of red, white, yellow and green flowers is draped along a root toward a dark shrine opening at the base, where a small lamp burns on a low stone platform. A man with long dark hair, red-orange dhoti and a bare upper body wears a red and white flower garland, a gold chest ornament and a gold bangle, and walks toward the tree. Behind him a bald man in an orange-red robe with gold borders and a rudraksha mala carries a silver plate. Dry earth and fallen leaves cover the ground. Two people are visible.2015-01-04Outdoor procession on a sandy path lined with a woven mat and blue border. A central barefoot man in orange-ochre robes with a gold-bordered dhoti, wearing a thick garland of white jasmine, red roses and green leaves, a gold necklace and a white vertical tilak, walks forward smiling with eyes lowered. An attendant behind him in a saffron-orange robe holds a large red and multicoloured tasselled umbrella over him. On the left, a woman in an orange sari carries a silver bowl of leaves and flowers on a tray, and another carries a yellow-and-red embroidered standard on a pole. Another orange-robed attendant walks at the right edge holding sandals. Small white and red shrines stand in the background among trees. a person in the centre, identified by the garland, gold necklaces and orange robes with ceremonial attendants.2013-01-06 +1 copiesOutdoor photograph of a procession beneath a large banyan tree with hanging aerial roots. A man at centre walks barefoot along a narrow cream mat with blue edging, wearing a rust-brown dhoti and wrap with gold borders, a multi-strand gold necklace with a large gold pendant, rudraksha malas, gold armbands and sacred ash markings on his forehead. Around him, young attendants in orange and red robes with rudraksha beads walk with palms pressed together in anjali, and one boy plays small cymbals. Stepping stones and reddish earth lie underfoot. The man is described only by role; the page's a person link is not established from appearance alone.2013-07-12 +1 copiesSeptember 13 20122012-09-13January 03 20162016-01-03Two men walk barefoot on a paved brick path beneath palm trees, with golden trident-shaped standards visible behind them. The man on the left, with short dark hair and a red bindi, wears a large multi-strand garland of pink and white flowers with gold-coloured beads and an orange-red dhoti with gold border, bare-chested. The bald man on the right, wearing a rudraksha mala and an orange-red dhoti with gold border, carries a folded orange towel and a small container. Other devotees in orange-red robes and bald priests follow in the procession.2014-09-26September 08 20152015-09-08July 19 20162016-07-19November 05 20132013-11-05Three men in saffron and orange ochre robes walk along a white-edged path lined with flat stepping stones beneath a large banyan tree with hanging aerial roots. The central man in front wears a rust-brown dhoti with gold borders and a long orange-marigold garland with gold beads, his eyes closed and a red tilak on his forehead. A second man behind wears a bright yellow-orange dhoti with pink borders and a white forehead band. A third man at left, partly turned, wears orange cloth with his hands folded. A dark stone shivalinga-like black object and a red stone sit to the right near a red mat. Sandy ground and stone benches complete the outdoor setting.2013-05-09 +1 copies