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A photograph at a riverside ghat with rocky riverbank and stone steps, a town of buildings on a hillside behind. In the right foreground a man with long dark hair, wearing an orange-saffron robe and an orange ribbed top with sleeves rolled up, extends his arm toward a gilded metal deity murti with a red cloth draped around it, possibly energizing or offering to it. Beside the murti are gold kalasha-like pots. Seated on the stones to the left, a large group of people in orange and saffron clothing listen attentively. A tripod-mounted camera stands among them.

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May 27 20062006-05-27May 27 20062006-05-27May 27 20062006-05-27May 27 20062006-05-27May 27 20062006-05-27Outdoor photograph at a riverbank in the Himalayas, with a steep wooded hillside and small temple buildings behind. In the foreground, a figure in orange robes with long dark hair stands at a raised platform, one arm extended toward a tall golden deity murti with a red-orange cloth. Several dozen people in orange clothing sit on the rocky riverbank facing the platform, with pots and metal vessels on the right. Appearance-based candidate: a person, identified by long swept-back hair and saffron robes while addressing the seated group at the murti.2006-05-27A man in orange robes performs a lamp offering (aarti) beside a shrine on a riverbank, holding a flaming oil lamp over a golden deity murti of a standing figure with a small golden idol. Behind him a second man in orange stands under a blue corrugated canopy near a trident-topped pole. Seated devotees in orange and white, many wearing orange shawls, fill the foreground on the rocky riverbed, with a hillside of pine trees, stone steps and buildings rising behind.2006-05-27May 27 20062006-05-27Outdoors on stone ghat steps beside a river, a large group of people in saffron-orange robes poses for a group photograph. In the centre, a man with long dark hair and a wide rudraksha mala, wearing an orange robe, raises one hand in a blessing gesture, seated near a silver-framed throne-like chair. Around him, men and women sit and stand holding long silver staffs and trishula tridents; several men are shaved-headed with gold beaded necklaces. An umbrella with colourful fringe and a kalasha-like finial stand behind, and a white-robed figure stands at right. Stone steps and people in the background complete the scene.2013-02-13May 27 20062006-05-27March 10 20132013-03-10May 27 20062006-05-27