A photograph of a collapsed multi-storey building with its front sheared away, exposing rooms to view. Concrete slabs, broken walls, dangling ceiling fans, a red painted wall and scattered rubble, clothing and household debris fill the ground floor. No people, deities, a person candidates or ritual activity are visible; this shows destruction rather than any KAILASA event. - Nithyanandapedia

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A photograph of a collapsed multi-storey building with its front sheared away, exposing rooms to view. Concrete slabs, broken walls, dangling ceiling fans, a red painted wall and scattered rubble, clothing and household debris fill the ground floor. No people, deities, a person candidates or ritual activity are visible; this shows destruction rather than any KAILASA event.

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