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A dense crowd fills a stone-pillared temple hall, with smoke or incense haze drifting through the air. Several bald, saffron-robed monks stand in the foreground, one wearing an orange garment and gold necklace, with a green leafy garland held in the middle of the group. Men in white shirts and dhotis surround them, and a few people raise hands and cameras. Yellow signboards line the wall and a wooden ceiling frames the scene. A figure with long dark hair and a saffron wrap appears near the centre, a person candidate, though the faces cannot be clearly confirmed from this crowded view.

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December 29 20102010-12-29A crowded temple interior at night under bright tube lights, with a dense crowd pressing toward a gold iron railing on the left. In the centre, a large decorated deity murti or palanquin with a bright orange-yellow flame and a garland of multicoloured flowers is carried forward. Men in white shirts and dhotis, some with folded hands in namaskar, and bald priests and devotees in orange and saffron cloth surround it. Several people hold up mobile phones and a video camera. Stone pillars and carved ornamentation frame the hall, and a sign reads in Tamil script above the entrance. A cluster of about twenty to thirty people is visible.2012-04-05December 29 20102010-12-29A dense crowd fills a temple hall with stone pillars; a yellow banner in Tamil reads திருவெம்பாவை திருப்பள்ளியெழுச்சி. In the centre, a bald man with a dark beaded mala and a yellow shawl stands among devotees, a priest in white dhoti in the foreground with his bare back shown, and a figure in orange robes with a shaved head at the left. Shirtless priests with sacred threads and yellow or red dhoti borders stand in the foreground, and a woman in a red garment is at right. Several people wear white, yellow and orange clothing, and a man in a white shirt stands in the lower right. Appearance of the central figure is uncertain, so he is described by role only.2010-01-08April 05 20122012-04-05A crowded temple interior with a dense group of people in white ritual clothes. In the centre, a shaven-headed man with a bare upper body wears a mala and a yellow shawl with a pale cloth draped over his shoulders, with sandal or vibhuti marks on his forehead, while a white-clad attendant bends toward him. To the right, a bearded man with bare chest and rudraksha malas holds his hands together near the centre. A bare-backed figure in white dhoti with a sacred thread stands at left in the foreground, and a man in a white shirt is seen from behind at lower centre. Pillars, a yellow banner with Tamil script hang in the background, and devotees fill the hall around them. a person is not visibly identifiable among these figures from appearance alone.2010-01-08A crowded temple interior filled with devotees pressing together under tall decorated pillars draped in purple, orange and rainbow cloth with yellow fringe. Two shaved-headed men in saffron-orange cloths stand at the centre, one with a gold chain, and a few men wear white dhotis and shirts. Women in saris and flowers are visible among the crowd. Large banana plant trunks stand beside the pillars, and carved stone columns frame the hall. A camera operator is visible at the lower left edge.2012-04-05Photo 11730897December 29 20102010-12-29A dim temple interior with a crowd of devotees pressing close. In the foreground a bare-chested priest with a sacred thread faces away, and a man in a white shirt holds a camera. Near the centre a man in an orange-saffron head wrap and white flower garland stands among the crowd. On the right a large printed poster of a deity pair, one with an elephant head and one with a multi-armed figure, hangs on a stone pillar; a garland of white and red flowers drapes the pillar beside it. Yellow and green hangings and a carved stone pillar with painted bands frame the scene.December 29 20102010-12-29December 29 20102010-12-29