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Night-time outdoor crowd gathered in front of a multi-storey cream temple-style building with pink trim, carved decorative ledges and blue-and-gold painted panels above the entrance. At the centre, a large colourful ceremonial parasol with red, yellow and blue fabric and tassels is held over a figure in saffron-orange robes. Nearby, a man in orange clothing and orange headwear stands among devotees in white dhotis and kurtas and orange shawls. Other attendees hold up a silver staff on the right. Strings of small lights hang across the facade. A dense mass of onlookers presses around the procession.

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February 17 20082008-02-17Night procession outside an illuminated temple, with a large crowd pressing around a palanquin carried on poles and decorated with flower garlands. A colourful multicoloured canopy umbrella is held above the central group. Several saffron-robed sannyasis walk within the crowd, one with a bare shaved head and orange cloth, another in a pale orange robe. Men in white dhotis and uniformed police officers in khaki stand nearby, and brass ritual lamps are carried at the left edge. Strings of lights outline the temple walls and a tall gopuram rises behind. Several saffron-clad figures in the procession are visible, and a figure with long swept-back hair and ornate orange-gold clothing near the palanquin may be a person, though the identification is uncertain.2008-02-17A dense street procession moves through a crowded town road under a large colourful ceremonial parasol with a multicoloured canopy and fringed tassels in purple, pink, orange and red. Several men in saffron and orange robes walk close together; one bald saffron-clad monastic in front has a white beard and an orange shawl. A bare-chested man wearing a white dhoti and a rudraksha mala and gold chain walks beside them. Men in white shirts and dark suits press around, some with raised hands, and a man in a straw hat stands at the rear. Shop signs and multi-storey buildings line the street behind the crowd.2009-07-23February 17 20082008-02-17February 17 20082008-02-17A photograph inside a South Indian temple hall with white pillars and painted deity panels on the ceiling. Crowded devotees surround a palanquin-style ceremonial parasol with a white canopy and gold-and-maroon fringe, held up on a wooden pole by a man in a white shirt and white dhoti. Near the front, a monk in saffron robes with a shaved head faces the group, and a man in an orange garment with a floral garland stands beside him. Devotees in white and saffron stand around a deity murti decorated with white and orange flower garlands, and a framed deity picture hangs on the right. Many people fill the frame, mostly partly visible.2010-08-09Night photograph of a crowd gathered outside a white stone temple entrance at Tiptur Chowdeshwari temple. A large decorated parasol with orange, maroon and yellow fringed trim and a silver top is held aloft over the procession. Many shaved-headed men in saffron and orange robes walk alongside men in white shirts and dhotis. A woman in an orange sari with a white flower garland stands in the centre. A man in white with a red flower garland is visible near the middle, and a cameraman with a camera stands at the left. Illuminated sign boards and lights line the street behind the crowd.2010-08-09Night procession outdoors at a temple area under a white and red fringed canopy umbrella. A man with long dark hair, a red-and-white flower garland, orange cloth and rudraksha beads receives a brass kalasha with white and orange flowers from a devotee in white. Around him, men in orange and white robes, some with orange shawls and rudraksha malas, walk through a crowd of onlookers, including boys in white shirts. The scene suggests a welcome or procession, with a visible lit temple structure behind.2010-08-09February 24 20172017-02-24February 02 20072007-02-02February 02 20072007-02-02December 23 20062006-12-23 +1 copies