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A young shirtless priest with long dark hair and white tripundra markings on his forehead holds a brass oil lamp with a flame in his right hand and a small brass handbell in his left. He wears a rudraksha mala around his neck and an orange-red cloth wrapped at his waist and over his shoulder. A dark metal vessel is in the foreground at right. In the blurred background, people in white clothes sit on stone steps near a red-brick structure.

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A young man with curly dark hair and a white vertical tilak on his forehead stands outdoors holding a brass aarti lamp in his right hand and a brass handbell in his left, with a flame burning in the lamp's cup. He is bare-chested, wearing an orange-red cloth draped over his shoulders and an orange dhoti, with a long rudraksha mala of brown beads and a smaller bead pendant around his neck. Behind him, steps and blurred figures in white and orange suggest a riverside ghat setting, consistent with an aarti or puja being performed.2017-08-07November 18 20182018-11-18August 04 20172017-08-04December 02 20182018-12-02December 18 20162016-12-18November 20 20182018-11-20A photograph of a young man in profile holding a tall brass multi-tiered aarti lamp with many lit oil lamps, offering it upward during a ritual in a hall. He wears an orange-saffron dhoti and shawl, a rudraksha mala, and white ash markings on his forehead and arms. Blurred seated devotees in orange clothing fill the background, along with red curtains and framed photographs on the wall. The lamp flames and warm light dominate the scene. Whether this man is a person cannot be established from appearance, so the role is described as a priest performing aarti.2017-07-20November 20 20182018-11-20March 23 20172017-03-23A bare-chested man in an orange cloth wrap and orange dhoti stands on red stone steps, holding a brass aarti plate with a flame and a brass bell in his other hand. He wears a rudraksha mala and a white tilak on his forehead, with long dreadlocked hair. Behind him, rows of brass lamps line red stepped seating, and white-clad devotees sit and bow in an outdoor ritual setting with a metal railing and netting.2017-05-29November 22 20182018-11-22November 18 20182018-11-18