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August 12 2007

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August 12 20162016-08-12Close photo of a round steel tray heaped with fresh fruit: several pineapples with spiky green crowns and a mix of round citrus fruits, mostly green-yellow limes or sweet limes plus a few bright orange ones. Green cloth is spread beneath. At the right edge, a blurred arm in a brown sleeve and an orange cloth edge suggests a devotee or priest handling the offering. Fruit offerings like this are typical of temple puja or prasad preparation. No faces are visible.2011-12-20December 20 20112011-12-20December 20 20112011-12-20December 07 2022 Sripuram2022-12-07Close overhead photo of a large silver-toned metal tray heaped with brown whole coconuts, their husks partly intact and some with dark eye marks. The tray rests on a woven mat with red and white stripes. At the left edge a whole pineapple with green leaves and red apples are visible, and at the right edge small wooden bowls with offerings. No people are visible; the arrangement suggests ritual offerings laid out for a puja.2007-08-12Close photo of a brass offering plate on a red velvet cloth, piled with fresh fruit: a pineapple, pomegranates, oranges or mandarins, bananas and pale green guavas. Two more brass plates with round sweets sit at the top edge. No people are visible. This is a fruit naivedyam arrangement for worship.2023-01-03Close-up photograph of a ritual offering arrangement. Several pineapples with spiky green crowns are piled together, with a brass bowl of whole red pomegranates on the left and bright green and orange citrus fruits at the right edge. A red and gold textile lies beneath the fruit. No people are visible; the scene is a fruit offering of the kind placed before a deity during worship.Annadhan during Allahabad Kumbhamela 20132013-01-01 +1 copiesA close photograph of a round stainless steel bowl filled with fresh fruit on a green cloth: several green and yellow-green citrus fruits, orange citrus fruits, and three whole pineapples with spiky crowns. No people or ritual figures are visible, only offerings of fruit on a table with a partial glass vessel and a small brown object at the top edge.2011-12-20A photograph of a large round green leaf plate heaped with fresh fruit: yellow-orange citrus fruits around the rim, dark red apples, and small greyish-brown fruits in the centre. A stainless steel bowl of green custard-apple-type fruit sits at the top edge on a striped woven cloth over a wooden surface. No people are visible; the arrangement looks like an offering or fruit plate for an ashram ritual.2012-01-08A photograph of ritual fruit offerings on a dark speckled granite floor. In the foreground a large polished brass plate holds bananas, red apples, green apples, oranges, a pomegranate and a whole coconut. Behind it, a second brass plate holds more apples, oranges and bananas with a husked coconut, and a brass lamp stand stands at the right edge. A white wall with a small copper vessel is visible behind. No people are visible.2009-05-28