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A photograph inside a stone-pillared hall where a crowd of devotees, mostly men in white shirts and some women in saris, sits and reaches forward with hands joined. A figure in orange robes with a shaved head sits cross-legged at a low wooden table holding a brass lamp and offering items, facing the seated devotees. A tall brass oil lamp with a lit flame stands in the foreground, along with brass bowls and a small cloth-draped deity murti in red and orange on the right. Carved grey stone pillars frame the scene.

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October 12 20072007-10-12A crowd of devotees presses toward a temple shrine in a stone-pillared hall. In the foreground a tall brass oil lamp stands beside brass vessels and a wooden platform draped with white cloth. On the left, a deity murti wrapped in orange and red cloth with a flower garland is visible. Many people in white, cream and orange clothing lean forward holding brass plates and a lit oil lamp, while a man in a white shirt reaches out. A brass plate of yellow flowers sits on the right beside a kalasha with mango leaves and marigolds. Petals are scattered on the stone floor. The scene reflects a temple puja and darshan during a festival.2009-01-02February 14 20072007-02-14Indoor ritual scene in a plain concrete hall with a carved stone pillar and hanging lights. A bald man in a saffron-orange robe and a beaded necklace kneels at a low stone platform, pouring or offering from a silver bowl over brass and steel puja vessels, with a brass kalasha and flowers on a wooden tray. Devotees in white clothes, including an older woman with folded hands, stand or kneel along the platform, with a young woman in orange at left and another in white with a mala at lower left. A woven vertical banner hangs at upper left. The visible man appears to match the a person cues of a saffron robe and ceremonial beads, yet his face and hair are not clearly distinct, so identity is uncertain; he is presented as a priest performing puja.2007-10-12November 12 20102010-11-12A crowd of devotees presses toward a seated priest in a saffron-orange robe at a low wooden platform with brass vessels, a small oil lamp, orange cloth and flower petals. A man in a white shirt and a woman in a teal blouse and white sari extend their hands with palms out toward him, while others in the crowd sit or stand in white, blue, green and striped clothing inside a whitewashed hall with orange cushions on the walls. The priest is leaning forward to touch an elderly man's hand, giving a blessing during darshan. The orange-robed figure has a shaved head and a rudraksha-style mala and is not visibly identified by name in the scene; a person is set to unsure because the appearance cues are insufficient.2008-03-22January 08 20102010-01-08February 16 20072007-02-16July 17 20082008-07-17June 29 20142014-06-29 +1 copiesMarch 28 20082008-03-28July 13 20092009-07-13