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A seated ritual scene with several people in plain white dhotis sitting on mats along a long row. In the foreground, a bare-chested man with curly black hair, a beard and red-rimmed glasses wears a long red-brown rudraksha mala and a thin white sacred cord, and reaches toward a brass puja plate with small oil lamps. Beside him, a shaved-headed man wearing a red cloth and white sandalwood marks on his forehead sits in the lower right. Brass plates with lamps and offerings line the floor, and a copper water bottle sits on the left. The setting suggests a puja or homa ritual, not a named event.

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January 03 20172017-01-03January 03 20172017-01-03January 10 20172017-01-10January 03 20172017-01-03January 22 20172017-01-22January 03 20172017-01-03 +1 copiesJanuary 03 20172017-01-03Devotees sit in rows with palms pressed together in anjali mudra during a seated gathering in a hall with cream walls and blurred background figures. In the foreground on the right, a bearded man with curly dark hair and glasses, bare-chested, wears a red rudraksha mala and a pendant necklace, eyes closed in prayer. Beside him a shaven-headed man, also bare-chested with a pendant, prays with hands folded. Further left, men in white dhoti-style cloth with bare upper bodies sit in prayer, and a figure with long hair tied back appears at the left edge. Flower petals and small lamps are visible on the floor mats. No one wears saffron robes or a crown, so no candidate is identifiable as a person.2017-01-03 +1 copiesA photograph of a row of seated devotees in white dhotis and bare upper bodies performing a puja. A man in the centre holds a small oil lamp in his right hand and a brass bell in his left, wearing a long rudraksha mala and white tilak marks on his forehead and arms. Brass plates, flowers, and small lamps sit on the floor before them, with a few seated participants blurred in the background.2017-01-10A row of seated men performing a puja on the floor of a hall. Foreground men are bare-chested with white dhoti-style cloth, rudraksha malas and white ash markings on their bodies; one wears red and black beads. Brass puja trays with flowers, lit oil lamps, incense sticks and small brass vessels sit on orange and red cloths before them. Several other seated devotees are visible in the background among more lamps and trays.2017-05-24January 03 20172017-01-03 +1 copiesJanuary 03 20172017-01-03 +1 copies