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September 21 2016

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A serving line in an ashram dining hall, with a stainless steel buffet counter and heated trays. Several people in orange and maroon robes, some with rudraksha malas and tilak, serve food onto white disposable plates, including flatbreads and yellow curry. In the foreground a woman in a white sari, wearing a rudraksha mala and a white hair cap with disposable gloves, serves dishes. Behind them, a man in white with a hairnet-style cap also serves. A framed devotional painting and photographs hang on the wall behind the line. No identifiable a person is visibly present.2014-08-25May 05 20162016-05-05May 05 20162016-05-05A bhandara feast line in which seated sadhus in saffron and orange robes are served from long rows of polished silver thalis and bowls. Volunteers wearing white dhotis with gold-bordered cloth and white hair-nets lean forward with metal ladles and pots, serving food, and a bearded sadhu in orange on the left holds his hands together in greeting. Marigold garlands hang on the serving pots and along the table edge. A long silver-topped serving table runs across the frame, and a bald sadhu in the lower left leans in. Several other volunteers and sadhus are partly visible at the top and right edges.2016-05-05A feast line at a bhandara, with saffron-robed sadhus and mahamandaleshwars seated on the floor before long steel thalis and small bowls. Several attendants in white head caps, face masks and gloves serve food from large steel pots, one holding a ladle, and some wear marigold garlands. Seated sadhus in orange and red robes, some with rudraksha malas and tilak, eat with their hands. A tent backdrop and a camera tripod are visible behind the line.2016-05-05A large outdoor feast hall packed with many seated devotees on a red mat floor, serving a bhandara meal from metal plates and steel trays. Many attendants wear white dhotis and sarees with orange or maroon shoulder cloths and white hairnets. Seated devotees in saffron and orange robes and orange turbans sit in rows. Some attendants bend forward to serve food. A large screen at the top shows red and orange imagery. White tent fabric forms the background.2016-05-05Large outdoor-tent feast at a Kumbh Mela style bhandara: a dense crowd of hundreds of people seated on the red carpeted floor in rows, many in saffron and orange robes and head cloths, with many more in white dhotis and white caps or hairnets. Several servers in white clothes with white hairnets carry steel plates and buckets, serving food to the seated devotees. A large screen at the top shows a stage performance. Some people wear rudraksha and marigold garlands. No single figure is clearly identifiable as a person in this wide view, so no candidate is marked.2016-05-05Photo of a large annadan meal hall with many seated guests at red chairs and long tables with banana-leaf plates. A person in saffron-orange robes, an orange turban, long swept-back hair and a rudraksha mala smiles while serving from a steel pot with a ladle, wearing clear plastic gloves. Beside them a young man in white with an orange sash and rosette holds a steel pail. Probable Swamiji (in-person candidate: saffron-orange robes, orange turban, long hair, rudraksha mala). Crowd of white-clad volunteers and guests fills the background.2007-12-12January 01 20192019-01-01February 06 20172017-02-06 +3 copiesA photograph of a ritual food offering in a temple-like hall. A large silver bowl holds cooked yellow rice with vegetables. A woman in an orange-brown sari with rudraksha mala kneels at left, scooping the rice, while a woman in white and gold kasavu-style dress with a hairnet and forehead tilak watches beside her. At right, a white-haired woman in orange robes and a rudraksha mala kneels, cupping rice in her hands, and a younger woman in orange stands at far right wearing rudraksha beads. Other saffron-robed devotees stand in the background near a monitor and tripod.2019-01-01January 01 20192019-01-01