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A seated person in an orange turban and purple shawl kneels before a wooden shrine cabinet glowing with a lamp, decorated with white and red flower garlands. Inside the shrine stands a deity murti. Above the cabinet hang framed pictures and a garlanded portrait of a deity, and beside them a bookshelf displays framed photographs of a bald seated elder and a standing elder. A tiled room, a steel kalasha vessel, brass pots and a green bin of flower petals complete the puja room scene.

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November 24 20062006-11-24Indoor puja at a shrine niche decorated with white and red flower garlands and a framed goddess image with a kumkum mark. A bearded elder in an orange-yellow shawl and white dhoti, with white vibhuti markings on his arms and forehead, leans forward to offer something from a small bowl. A second person in an orange head wrap kneels in front of him at the lower edge of the frame. Brass plates, a kalasha-style vessel and metal containers sit on a steel side table, and framed printed notices hang on the wall. Possibly ceremonial abhishekam or aarti.2006-11-24A photograph of a seated man in saffron-orange robes and an orange head wrap, leaning forward at a small ritual altar in a bare concrete room with barred windows. He holds a small metal vessel over a gold-rimmed brass plate, while a red gas cylinder, a garland of white and orange flowers, brass oil lamps and a stick of incense sit nearby. The setting suggests a domestic blessing ritual.2003-04-23June 27 20142014-06-27January 20 20142014-01-20June 27 20142014-06-27A photograph of a woman with grey hair tied back, seen from behind, in a yellow-gold sari with a dark shawl, bending to offer worship at a wooden shrine cabinet. Inside the shrine, framed devotional images of a goddess in red and gold, garlanded with white jasmine and red flowers, are arranged with brass lamps and offerings. Printed prayer sheets are pinned to the open cabinet door. A puja performed at a home shrine with flowers and oil lamps.2006-11-24A bald, bare-chested priest in a maroon-orange dhoti with a gold border sits cross-legged at right in front of a golden shrine niche lit by a row of warm lamp lights. He wears a dark rudraksha mala and a thin beaded headband, with white sacred ash marks on his arms and upper body. The shrine holds a gilded deity murti with a pinkish-red flower garland, a golden arched canopy, and a dancing Nataraja-style figure at left. Brass vessels, a kalasha-like pot and a tray of pink flowers and leaves sit on the stone platform, with a brass bowl in the foreground. Setting is a temple sanctum.2012-05-132007 - Social Service Activities At Kailaasa SriPuram Sarvajnapeeta, Hyderabad2007-01-01September 26 20062006-09-26June 28 20142014-06-28 +1 copiesA person in a rust-red robe wearing a long garland of green leaves, white jasmine and red roses with rudraksha beads stands in a small purple-walled shrine corner, lighting or tending an oil lamp with the right hand. A white vertical forehead mark is visible, and the person's hair is pulled back. Shelves hold framed deity pictures and photographs decorated with white flowers, brass oil lamps, a brass bowl and newspaper. On the altar below, a printed deity picture with garlands and a kalasha-like arrangement sits beside jasmine flowers in a tray. The scene reads as a home puja corner with lamps and garlands.2014-07-04 +1 copies