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Close-up photo of a bare-chested older man with short grey hair, thin-rimmed glasses and a grey moustache, holding a small bundle of white and yellow ritual items, possibly sacred thread or cloth, in one hand. He wears a white cord across his shoulder and a dark pendant on a cord at his chest, with white ash marks on his forehead and body. Other bare-chested participants sit blurred in the background in a warm-toned hall.

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A photograph of a shaved-headed, bespectacled older man seated among blurred participants during a ritual initiation. He is bare-chested with white sacred ash marks on his forehead and shoulders and a thin sacred cord across his chest. He holds a folded palm-leaf or sheet in both hands and reads from it with his head lowered. Several other bare-chested men sit in the background wearing white cloths and cords.2017-02-22February 22 20172017-02-22February 22 20172017-02-22February 22 20172017-02-22February 22 20172017-02-22A photograph of a shaved-head, grey-haired man with white vertical tilak lines on his forehead and white sacred ash markings on his chest and shoulders, wearing thin wire-rimmed glasses. He is bare-chested, wearing a white sacred thread, and holds small bundled sticks in his hands while focusing downward, seemingly during a ritual. Behind and beside him, other bare-chested devotees seated in rows, also marked with white ash, appear blurred in a pink-walled hall during a Shiva Deeksha initiation.2017-02-22Photograph of a bare-chested man with short grey hair and rimless glasses seated in a ritual gathering, holding a small wooden implement and a folded leaf or cloth in his right hand. White vertical sacred ash marks streak his forehead and shoulders, and a white sacred thread with a rudraksha bead hangs around his neck. Behind and beside him, other bare-chested men in white ritual cloths sit in a hall with pink walls, blurred and absorbed in the ceremony. The image is consistent with a group initiation puja or deeksha setting.2017-02-22February 22 20172017-02-22February 22 20172017-02-22A photograph of a seated man in white ritual dress with a bare chest and a white cloth draped over his shoulder, a long dark hair braid falling down his back, rudraksha mala beads and a gold pendant necklace, wearing glasses and a silver earring, holding a small red-and-gold book against his chest while looking upward. Beside him a man in a white shirt and dhoti sits with a sacred ash mark on his forehead, and a hand gestures in the right foreground. The blurred background shows a large seated crowd of devotees in white.2017-07-09February 22 20172017-02-22A photograph of a seated group of devotees in a ritual setting, most bare-chested and marked with white sacred ash stripes across their chests and shoulders, wearing white dhotis and white sacred threads over the shoulder. In the centre, a grey-haired man with a white horizontal tilak on his forehead and a rudraksha-style bead pendant on a white cord sits with his palms pressed together in prayer, gazing to the side. Beside him and behind, other participants in similar white attire sit attentively, one with his hands folded. The people appear to be taking part in an initiation-style ceremony with ritual markings on the body.2017-02-22