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Outdoor scene in a garden courtyard beside a red wall and green gate. A dark stone deity murti with a gold arch behind it, garlanded with orange flowers, sits in front of bamboo and green trees. A woman in a red-orange sari stands at the shrine holding an offering. Around her, a group of devotees in white clothing face the shrine: a man with long dreadlocks in a white dhoti with gold border, a bald man in a white kurta, a boy in white with a yellow scarf, women in white and a woman in a pink-strapped bag and white outfit. Some stand with hands folded in prayer, others watch quietly. The scene reads as a devotional darshan or puja at the murti.

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A photograph of devotees gathered under a large banyan tree in an open garden, facing a black stone deity murti set in a white arched niche with a yellow cloth backdrop. The murti wears an orange cloth, a red-and-white garland and is flanked by ornaments. A red-powdered offering sits on a raised base in front, and a child in white stands at the left edge. Devotees in white ritual clothes, some with rudraksha-style necklaces, a woman in a pink-and-striped dress and others in orange and pink, stand in a semicircle with hands folded. A man in a red shirt holds a camera at the left. The scene is a darshan at an outdoor shrine with aerial roots hanging from the banyan.2011-08-19Outdoor photo beneath a large banyan tree at an ashram. In the left foreground a black stone murti of a seated deity in orange cloth with a red headdress and white and red flower garlands sits in an arched white and yellow shrine niche, in front of a mound of red-orange kumkum or sindoor. 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A small tree stands in a circular stone base at the centre, and a few people in pink and purple are visible among the crowd.2011-11-21