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A crowded temple procession moves through a gateway with painted pillars and sculpted figures on the rooftop. Banana plants flank the entrance. At centre, a large ornate processional vehicle carries a decorated deity murti beneath a red and gold radiating halo, with a bull figure in front. Dense crowds surround it: men in white dhotis and a man in a white turban, women in saris, and uniformed police near the vehicle. A yellow vehicle sits at left beside a banner. Many people, in front of a temple gate.

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December 20 20112011-12-20December 20 20112011-12-20A dense crowd of devotees fills a temple gateway during a procession. In the centre, a golden palanquin-style deity vehicle with a decorated golden crown-like canopy and a gilded bull-like figure is carried forward under an arched temple gopuram entrance. Banana plants flank the entrance. In the foreground a man in a pink shirt holds his palms pressed together in anjali, and several men wear white shirts and vibhuti-marked foreheads. Women in saris stand among them. Colourful painted temple carvings, a yellow banner and a pink signboard are visible. The crowd is large, with many people partially visible.2011-12-20December 20 20112011-12-20December 20 20112011-12-20December 20 20112011-12-20A dense outdoor crowd surges through a street in front of an ornate South Indian temple gopuram-style gateway with painted sculptural figures. Men in white shirts and dhotis, some with white head cloths and sandalwood or vibhuti marks, press forward, while women in saris and salwar are mixed among them. On the right, a decorated temple procession vehicle with a bull mount and a painted deity murti under an ornate arch stands among banana plants. A man in an orange-saffron garment appears at right with a shaved head, and a yellow auto-rickshaw and parked vehicles are visible at left. Blue and white shop signs with Tamil script line the street.2011-12-20A dense crowd of devotees fills a narrow temple street, many in white dhotis and shirts, others in pink and blue saris and salwar. In the centre a man in a white shirt with a rudraksha mala looks ahead among the press. Behind the crowd a golden ceremonial ratha or palanquin, adorned with a bull figure and a colourful canopy, is carried past banana trees and a temple gopuram. Uniformed police officers and orange-robed sadhus are visible among the people. The scene conveys a festival procession at a South Indian temple.2011-12-20A dense crowd of men fills a street beneath a colourful temple gopuram-style colonnade with painted ceiling medallions and carved lion brackets. Many men wear white shirts and dhotis, some with vermilion or vibhuti marks. Several decorated processional palanquins or ratha canopies with red, yellow and blue fringed umbrellas are carried through the crowd, and green banana-leaf and palm-frond arches frame the entrance. Above, painted deity figures sit on the temple roof. The scene reads as a temple procession, with no clearly identifiable individual in the foreground.2006-09-24December 20 20112011-12-20 +1 copiesA dense crowd of devotees fills a street outside a colourfully painted temple gopuram-style gateway with ornate pillars, circular medallion decorations and lion-bracket carvings. Several large ceremonial umbrellas with red, gold and multicoloured fringed canopies are carried above the crowd during a procession, along with banners and a palanquin-like canopy. Most people wear white dhotis and shirts, with some in saffron or orange garments. Green banana-leaf and palm decorations are strung across the entrance. The procession appears to be a ratha or temple procession moving through the crowd.2006-09-24December 20 20112011-12-20