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A photograph of a courtyard gathering at an ashram-style building with a balcony, decorated with a green banana-leaf garland. In the foreground, a barefoot man in white dhoti and shirt, with grey hair, holds a lit lamp or arati plate toward a man in white dhoti and shirt with a rudraksha-style mala. Nearby, a man in an orange shawl with a mala stands beside a man in white holding a mala. Behind them, a large crowd of women in saris, mostly in green, orange and red, and men in white clothes press together, some with palms pressed in namaste. An older man on the right raises his hands in greeting. A tiled walkway with pink and cream tiles leads through the scene, and a small sign hangs on the building wall. A timestamp reads 25 10 2006.

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A crowded outdoor scene at a building entrance decorated with banana leaves. A priest in white dhoti with an orange-saffron shawl over his shoulder holds a flame or lamp at the centre, while devotees gather around him with hands folded and palms pressed together. Women wear sarees in purple, green, red and orange; men wear white shirts and dhotis. A small white sign on the right with a teal emblem and Tamil text reads 'Dhyanapeedam' and a line about meditation and meditation-instruction centre. Smoke rises from a window on the left, and a date stamp in the lower right reads 25 10 2006.2006-10-25A crowd of devotees gathers in front of a white building with a banana-leaf garland strung across its facade and banana leaves at the doorway. Many women in colourful saris, including orange, red, green and pink, stand with hands pressed together in namaste, and several men in white dhotis and shirts stand among them. A smoke or incense haze rises near the doorway. A sign on the right in Tamil reads Dhyanapeedam with an image of a woman, and a dated stamp in the corner reads 25 10 2006. No individual is clearly identifiable as a person, so the scene shows devotees at a ceremony.2006-10-25October 25 20062006-10-25Outdoor photograph of a crowd of devotees gathered in a courtyard in front of a white two-storey building with a green leaf garland strung along its eaves. Many women in sarees, including yellow, orange, green, red, pink and blue, stand with palms pressed together in anjali. A man in a checked shirt in the front left holds his hands folded. On the right, an older man in white dhoti and shirt stands beside a woman in a pink blouse and green saree holding a tray of flowers. A man in a white dhoti stands on the raised doorway platform of the building, and a small white sign with a photo and text hangs on the right. Trees and banana plants surround the courtyard.2006-10-25A photograph of a courtyard outside a white two-storey building with a tiled roof, a green leaf festoon along the upper balcony and a banana plant at right. A crowd of about twenty-five women in saris and a few men stand in an orderly line on a paved courtyard beside a large tree. Many women wear green, teal, purple and orange saris; a man at lower left wears a checked shirt, and an older man at right wears a white dhoti and shirt and holds a small tray of flowers. Inside the open doorway, a figure in white stands among others. A small sign hangs at the upper right of the building.2006-10-25October 25 20062006-10-25A large outdoor gathering in front of a temple-style wooden pavilion with white-painted columns and banana-leaf decorations. In the foreground, a man with grey hair wears a plain white dhoti and shirt and stands barefoot in front of a group of white-clad men. Behind them, a long line of women in colourful saris, including pink, red, green and blue, stands on a sandy ground. Some are holding children. A bicycle is parked at the right edge. Date stamp 25 10 2006 appears in red at lower right.2006-10-25October 09 20062006-10-09October 25 20062006-10-25October 16 20062006-10-16Outdoor photograph of a crowd of women and a few children gathered in a courtyard beside a white wall. In the centre, a woman in a brown and gold sari with a red blouse holds a brass tray of flowers, coconut and offerings while a woman in a white sari and white shawl with a rudraksha mala presses her palms together nearby. A man in white clothing with an orange shawl stands at left with hands folded, and a woman in white at right holds a plate of offerings with palms joined. Other women in saris of blue, orange, green and pink stand behind them, several with hands folded in greeting. Chalk kolam designs mark the ground below. No candidate for the named a person is clearly visible.2006-10-25A dense street procession in Pondicherry with a crowd of devotees in white shirts and dhotis, many women in saris in orange, red, pink and green, several carrying silver kalasha pots topped with coconuts and white flowers. Orange and white flags are raised at left. A green auto-rickshaw with a loudspeaker horn sits at right beside a gold-covered ratha-style float. Yellow building walls behind hold a poster and a large roadside banner showing a saffron-robed figure labelled with a Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam name. The scene shows a ratha yatra procession.2006-10-16