A photograph of a temple complex beside a broad greenish water tank in Tamil Nadu. A gopuram-style tower with tiered roofs rises above palm and shade trees, flanked by smaller red-and-cream shrine structures along the stone-walled bank. In the foreground a man in a white shirt and white dhoti rides a bicycle along the tank edge, with dry reeds and a white vehicle at the right edge of the frame. - Nithyanandapedia

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A photograph of a temple complex beside a broad greenish water tank in Tamil Nadu. A gopuram-style tower with tiered roofs rises above palm and shade trees, flanked by smaller red-and-cream shrine structures along the stone-walled bank. In the foreground a man in a white shirt and white dhoti rides a bicycle along the tank edge, with dry reeds and a white vehicle at the right edge of the frame.

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