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A night-time photo of a man in a white shirt and white trousers sitting on the edge of a pale stone platform, his back to the camera, reaching toward a brass plate heaped with reddish-brown earth or powder. Two people in dark red and orange-bordered garments stand to the left, one with bare arms, bangles and a beaded necklace, reaching toward the plate. Loose reddish soil lies on the ground in front and a bare banyan-like trunk stands behind. No clear identifiable a person depiction is visible; the figures are shown from behind or partially.

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April 24 20132013-04-24April 24 20132013-04-24April 24 20132013-04-24Night-time outdoor scene at a stone-walled pit or well ring filled with loose brown earth. A bare-chested man with a shaved head kneels at left, wearing a reddish-brown waist cloth and a dark rudraksha-style bead mala across his shoulders, and scoops or pats the soil with his hands. At right, a standing man in an all-white dhoti and white shirt holds a long dark iron rod or digging tool planted in the ground. Weathered concrete walls and a tree trunk with roots appear behind them.2013-04-24Night photo at an outdoor ritual beside a large banyan tree with aerial roots. Three men in ochre-red dhoti-style garments with rudraksha malas and white tilak on their foreheads and arms are present. The foreground kneeling man in red holds and offers sand or soil from a brass plate into the cupped hands of a man in a white shirt and white dhoti who kneels at a stone edge. A brass kalasha sits on the left, and yellow flowers lie at the right edge. Behind, a standing priest in red wears beaded necklaces. The scene resembles a sacred earth-offering rite, with no visible a person candidate.2013-04-24Night-time photograph of three men crouched beside a low white stone-walled pit filled with reddish-brown sand. Two shaved-headed men in saffron-orange dhotis and sashes, one with a rudraksha mala, dig into the sand with their hands. A third man in a white shirt and white dhoti kneels at the right, holding a long metal rod or pole into the pit. Large tree roots are visible in the upper right. Only these three physical people are visible; no candidate for a person can be confirmed from appearance.2013-04-24April 24 20132013-04-24Close view of a ground-level ritual in progress on packed reddish-brown earth. A shaven-headed man with white sacred ash marks on his forehead, arms and chest, wearing a rudraksha mala and a saffron-red cloth, kneels and presses his hands into the soil. Beside him a man in white shirt and white dhoti crouches and digs with a long iron rod. Behind them, a gilded chair and draped red and pink cloths suggest a temple or ashram setting. The soil has been dug into a shallow trench lined with pale stone blocks.2013-04-24April 24 20132013-04-24April 24 20132013-04-24Outdoor temple-precinct scene of three men kneeling on a bed of reddish-brown sand. On the left, a shaved-headed priest in a red-orange dhoti and orange-brown shawl with a multi-strand bead necklace and gold pendant bends forward, with white sacred ash marks on his arms and forehead. In the centre, an older man with grey hair and stubble in a white vest and white dhoti digs his hands into the sand. On the right, another shaved-headed man in an orange-red garment presses his hands into the sand. A stone bench and a white-washed wall stand behind, with scattered yellow flowers and petals on the ground. A purple cloth lies in the lower left corner. No visible a person candidate; the figures are priest and devotees.2013-04-24April 24 20132013-04-24