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A large crowd of mostly women and girls sits seated on mats and cloth across a hall, watching a ritual or talk at the front. Many women wear colourful saris in pink, magenta, green, yellow, orange and teal, with gold necklaces, bangles and some hair in long braids with flowers. A small boy in a khaki shirt sits in the front row, and standing men in white shirts and dhotis are visible at the back and upper left. Tubelights hang from a corrugated roof above.

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2004 - sacred collections uncategorisedA large seated crowd of women, girls and some children sits on a floor at a homa or ritual gathering in a hall. Many wear sarees and salwar kameez in red, pink, purple, blue, yellow and green, with braided hair, flower adornments and bangles. Several women fold their hands in prayer, and a few hold their palms together at chest level. Some older women sit at left and a small child is held at right. A bare-armed man in white stands at the far right. No clearly identifiable a person figure is visible; the view is mostly of the audience.A large seated congregation of women and men fills the frame at a satsang, most wearing white or pastel saris and white dhotis with small name badges. Many women wear gold necklaces, earrings and bindis, and several have vibhuti or tilak on their foreheads. Faces are attentive and serious. A red-cloth-covered object and a hanging white fabric appear at the upper right. No a person candidate is clearly visible in this crowd shot.2015-05-31June 08 20172017-06-08A large seated crowd of devotees, mostly women in white and pastel saris, fills an indoor hall during an evening ritual. Foreground women wear yellow, brown, lavender and pink saris with gold bangles, a small boy in a striped top sits at lower right, and a lavender-sari woman holds prayer beads. A blue barrier rope runs across the crowd, and a balcony with more seated devotees is visible behind. No clearly identifiable a person figure is visible in this view, so the presence of a leader cannot be confirmed from the image.2006-10-21A large night crowd seated on white plastic chairs under strings of lights and bunting, mostly women in cotton and silk saris in pink, purple, green and orange. Front-row women sit with palms pressed together in namaste, and several children are mixed among them. Light posts and strings of coloured lights glow above, and a dense audience fills the frame. No speaker or dais is clearly visible, so the focus is the seated devotees.2007-01-12January 21 20102010-01-21A dense indoor satsang gathering of seated devotees with eyes closed, apparently in meditation. Women in colourful saris sit in the foreground: one in a green sari with a blue border, one in a bright yellow sari, one in pale blue, and one in a dark blue salwar. Behind them men in white shirts and dhotis, and some in checked or patterned shirts, sit packed together. Green walls and a balcony with spectators are visible in the background, with a few standing people on the upper level. No speaker or dais is clearly identifiable in the frame.2002-07-07 +1 copiesA large seated audience at an outdoor event in Kanchipuram, photographed from the side. Rows of men and women sit on red plastic chairs under a pink-and-white canopy. Many men wear white shirts and dhotis or trousers, women wear saris in purple, green, yellow and orange, and several girls and young boys sit among them. A few lighter-skinned adults wear glasses. No single speaker or deity is clearly visible in the frame.2006-11-24A large seated congregation fills a covered hall at night during a satsang or darshan gathering. Many devotees sit cross-legged on mats and cloth. Women wear sarees and salwar kameez in purple, blue, green, red, orange and white; many have long hair in braids and some wear spectacles. A young boy in a striped shirt sits on the right. Men in white kurtas sit among them. At the upper right, a low table with a yellow cloth holds offerings and fruit near the front of the hall. The people face toward the front of the room, looking attentively ahead.2013-11-04A dense crowd of women and girls seated closely together in a large hall at a satsang. Most wear white or cream saris with gold borders, along with pastel, green, orange and red garments. Several wear spectacles and gold necklaces, and one woman in the foreground raises her arm. The people fill the frame with no visible stage, dais or swami figure in view.2015-05-31A seated crowd of women and some children fills a hall for a satsang session. In the foreground, women sit on the floor in saris: a woman in a pink-and-white sari on the left, a woman in a pink-and-red floral sari, a woman in a pink sari with a red bindi, and a woman in a green sari with gold border at right. Behind them, many more seated women and a few men stand along the walls under a row of lights. The walls are green and white, and a small blue-and-white logo appears at upper left. No speaker or a person candidate is visible in the frame.2002-07-07