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A photograph taken from behind a person with long dark dreadlocks and a braid, wearing a rust-orange garment and bangles, pointing toward a bright yellow shrine doorway with triangular cutouts. Inside the small shrine, a framed picture hangs on the wall and a white-and-pink floral offering or deity figure with garlands sits on a platform. A second person is partly visible at the left edge.

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A photograph taken from behind a long-haired man with dark dreadlocks, wearing an orange-red cloth over his shoulder, standing at the entrance of a yellow-walled shrine. His hands are pressed together in anjali mudra as he faces inside. Inside the small shrine, a framed picture hangs on the wall and a white-clad figure with a striped cloth sits in front. A second person with short dark hair stands partially visible at the left edge, eyes lowered in prayer. Sunlight falls across the courtyard outside.2018-03-01March 01 20182018-03-01March 01 20182018-03-01A photograph taken from behind and beside a figure with long, dark, matted dreadlocks falling down the back, wearing a reddish-brown wrap over the shoulders. The figure stands at a blue-framed doorway looking into a lit shrine room, where a dark stone Nandi bull sits before decorated deity figures draped in flower garlands, with red and white blossoms and marigold-style strings. In the right foreground the top of another dark-haired head is visible. The viewer sees the scene through the doorway from a close, dim angle.2018-03-01March 01 20182018-03-01March 01 20182018-03-01March 01 20182018-03-01Three men in saffron and orange sannyasi attire stand outside a small yellow shrine with a blue lattice gate. Inside, a black Shiva lingam with a white cloth draped over its base sits in the dim interior, with a small oil lamp lit. The man in the centre, with a dark beard, rudraksha malas and a sandalwood-marked forehead, extends his arm toward the shrine. In the foreground, a long-haired man in an orange shawl faces the shrine, and a silver plate with flowers rests near them. Green foliage and a corrugated sheet roof frame the scene. Two of the men have long matted hair, and the one at right wears a rudraksha mala and orange shawl; their roles are priests or devotees at the shrine. The person in the centre is a candidate for a person by appearance but the cues are not clear enough to confirm him.2018-03-01 +1 copiesA long-haired man with dreadlocked hair seen from behind holds a brass aarti plate with lit oil lamps toward a doorway opening onto a shrine. Inside the shrine stands a deity murti draped in garlands of white and red flowers, with a black Shivalinga and flower offerings in front. A rudraksha bracelet is on his upper arm, and a dark figure on the right edge is a stone sculpture. The scene suggests a puja or aarti in a small temple sanctum with blue-painted door frame.2018-03-01March 01 20182018-03-01A photograph of a person with very long, dark, matted hair seen from behind, holding a brass aarti plate with a lit flame toward a doorway framed in blue. The figure wears a bare upper body with rudraksha beads on the upper arm and wrist, and a dark reddish-brown wrap. Beyond the doorway, a deity murti is decorated with garlands and red flowers, with a Nandi and a shivalinga in the foreground. On the right, a dark stone shivalinga stands near the doorway. The scene is an ashram-style temple shrine during puja.2018-03-01A photograph taken from behind a woman with long dark braided hair and a rudraksha mala worn on her upper arm, looking through a blue-framed doorway toward an inner shrine. Inside, a black Shiva lingam sits on a base with white and orange flower garlands, and a decorated deity murti with red and gold adornments is visible beyond. A small flame glows at the lower left edge.2018-03-01