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A large seated audience in white clothes fills a covered hall decorated with tall banana-style plants and rows of white lights overhead. Most men wear white shirts and rudraksha malas, and many women wear white saris with coloured ribbon badges pinned to them. Some attendees hold orange bags. Banners hang at the back of the hall, and a figure in white stands at the far left edge.

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A large crowd of devotees sits seated on the floor under a high bamboo-and-thatch pandal hung with strings of green leaves and flowers. Rows of tall white fluorescent tube lights stand between banana or palm-like trunks. Most attendees wear white clothes, many with rudraksha malas, and several wear lanyard badges and green circular name or participant tags. Some men wear white shirts and dhotis; women wear white saris with coloured borders. Some are seated on white mats, and a man in white stands near the back. A banner in the background carries Tamil lettering. The scene suggests a satsang or yajna audience at a Sapta Yagam event in Salem.2006-07-16A large crowd of devotees sits on the ground under a tall open hall lined with banana-style plants and rows of bright white tube lights. Most people wear white ritual clothing, many with rudraksha malas and pendant necklaces; some wear coloured rosettes or badges. Men and women are seated closely together facing a distant stage where a figure in white stands near the back. Overhead hangs a banner with printed Tamil text. Behind the crowd, a few people in white stand near the stage area.2006-07-16July 16 20062006-07-16July 16 20062006-07-16A large indoor hall filled with a dense crowd of devotees seated on the floor, mostly dressed in white garments with rudraksha malas around their necks; some wear yellow badges and white shawls. Tall bamboo-like poles with hanging strings of flowers and rows of tubular white lights line the hall, with banana-leaf style decorations and a banner visible in the background. Most attendees face forward in a satsang or ritual gathering, many with eyes closed or looking toward the front.2006-07-16A large seated congregation fills a covered pandal decorated with orange and red hanging banners and green leaf festoons. Most people sit cross-legged on the floor in white dhotis and white shirts, many wearing rudraksha malas and marks on the forehead. A bald man in front wears a white shirt and gold wristwatch with hands clasped, and a man at right in white dhoti and mala sits near a small child in yellow. Elderly women in white and orange saris sit at left, one in a wheelchair. A man in white stands on a raised platform at the back, and more white-clad devotees stretch into the distance.2007-01-01July 16 20062006-07-16A large seated congregation fills an open-sided pavilion with a corrugated metal roof supported by bamboo-like poles strung with yellow and green leaf garlands. Rows of devotees sit on the floor, mostly men and women dressed in white, many wearing rudraksha malas and some holding bamboo sticks or cloth. Fluorescent tube lights hang between the posts and banners line the back wall. Two elderly men in front, one in glasses and one bald in white, sit with hands joined, while a woman in a yellow saree sits at the left edge. Tall potted banana-style plants frame the scene.2006-07-16July 16 20062006-07-16A large indoor hall packed with seated devotees in white clothes, many wearing rudraksha malas and some with white sacred-thread-style shawls, facing forward toward a distant stage area. Rows of white-lit fluorescent tubes hang between tall green banana-leaf or palm-style poles decorated with strings of yellow flowers and foliage overhead. In the foreground, a man in white with glasses sits near a white circular stone-style fire pit or yagna kund, and a older man with a white shawl sits nearby. Banners and signs line the back walls and a few figures in orange and white stand at the far end. The crowd appears to be attending a yagna or satsang gathering, though the exact count of attendees is too large to tally precisely.2006-07-16July 16 20062006-07-16A large outdoor gathering of devotees seated on the ground under a pandal decorated with orange, red and blue banners and banana trunks. Most people wear white clothing and rudraksha malas, and many have white or orange shawls. A woman in the centre foreground wears a white sari and glasses, and an elderly woman on the right wears an orange shawl. A man in a dark jacket stands near the centre-left, and a woman in a cream jacket leans forward in the lower right. No clear a person candidate is visible in the frame.2007-01-01