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Interior shot of a bare, plastered room with a large barred window. In the foreground stands a silver-faced deity murti draped in an orange-gold shawl and garlanded with white jasmine strands, yellow marigolds and red roses. Beside it is a framed portrait garlanded with white flowers and marigolds, set on a small table. At right are a brass lamp with a lit flame, a brass ritual vessel and an orange floral garland. No physical people are visible.

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A small room with pale blue walls and a barred window with a red cloth draped over it. A standing statue of a figure in a blue turban and orange garment, with a raised hand, is decorated with garlands of white jasmine and red roses and marigolds. Brass oil lamps with a lit flame stand on either side, and a brass kalasha-like finial and flower offerings sit at the base. Bedding and a checked bag are visible at left. No physical people are visible. This is a statue depiction, not a person in the scene.2012-01-06A woman kneels on a bare concrete floor in a plain, unfinished room with grey block walls and barred windows. She wears a white sari with an orange and green border and a dark bracelet, and lights or offers a small oil lamp on a tray in front of a framed black-and-white photograph garlanded with white and orange flowers. To the right stands a brass lamp with a white flower garland and a table draped in white cloth holding an orange flower garland, brass vessels and a bell. The image carries a copyright overlay.2003-04-232003 - Sacred collection UncategorizedA woman with long dark hair kneels on a red-tinged concrete floor in a bare, grey-walled room, wearing a white sari with orange and green woven borders. She leans forward to light or tend a small brass lamp placed before a framed black-and-white portrait garlanded with white flower strands on a white-draped stand. To the right stands a brass tray with an ornate brass oil lamp, an orange-and-white flower garland, and a brass kalasha-style vessel, with more brass pots and a bell nearby. The scene appears to be a home or ashram puja setting with flowers and oil lamps as offerings.2003-04-23November 13 20052005-11-13July 27 20082008-07-27June 23 20142014-06-23 +2 copiesA photo of a small indoor room during a final ceremony beside a glass-sided casket holding a shrouded body, decorated with white and pink-purple flower garlands and offerings. Seated on the floor around it, a standing figure at left with long dark hair and a saffron robe with a rudraksha-style mala stands with raised ceremonial rods; other saffron-robed sannyasis sit in front. Several white-clad devotees, including an older man and young girls, sit nearby. A young man in a white shirt stands behind a video camera on a tripod near a framed portrait labelled "Sri Nithya Arunachalananda" garlanded with flowers.2005-11-13A shrine room with a red satin draped altar holding three black-and-white framed portraits of men, each garlanded with white and pink flower strands, and a large framed color portrait on the right showing a smiling man in an orange-saffron turban and orange robes, also garlanded. In front, a covered object wrapped in red and gold-bordered cloth with a flower garland sits on the tiled floor, scattered with rose petals. Walls are white with decorative plaster columns and a wall-mounted light. No people are physically present in the room.2014-07-03Inside a small stone shrine with a green doorframe, a devotee in an orange cloth sits with hands folded in prayer, while a second person in white with raised palms stands at the left edge. In the niche is a framed black-and-white photograph of a bare-chested, seated, bearded man with his hands in his lap and a rudraksha-style garland, draped with an orange cloth and set before a brass oil lamp and a small offering dish. A curved metal arch sits behind the frame against a worn grey wall.2008-08-03Indoor ceremony in a plain whitewashed room lit by a harsh flash. A bearded man with long hair and a rudraksha mala, wearing saffron robes, sits cross-legged on the left, facing a glass-covered wooden coffin-like box draped with white cloth and garlanded with marigolds and roses. Several saffron-robed men sit on the floor in front, brass vessels and oil lamps set before them. A man in white stands at the back holding a long pole with a cloth banner, a cameraman films beside a tripod, and white-clad attendants stand nearby. On the wall right, a framed portrait of a smiling man in a white turban with pink garlands is decorated with marigold garlands. Six or more people are visible.2005-11-13November 13 20052005-11-13