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Outdoor photo of devotees celebrating Diwali with firecrackers at a white-walled building. In the foreground, a young man in white clothes with an orange shawl lights a firecracker held near a small white platform, with smoke rising. Beside him, a figure in orange robes with a red-banded shawl faces away from the camera. Behind them, a crowd of about two dozen people sits on steps and stands in an archway, including sannyasi-style figures in orange robes and women in saris and salwar kameez. A wall poster on the right reads about a Sunday event starting in October 2008, with registration details and a Nithyanandeshwara/Dhyanapeetham address notice. No distinct depiction of a person is clearly visible.

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October 27 20082008-10-27Outdoor photo at a white-walled temple courtyard with a sign reading Nithyananda Temple at top left. A barefoot man in white dhoti and shirt with an orange scarf stands at left, arms spread. In the centre, a seated figure in orange robes sits on a large orange-draped seat beside a white rectangular platform, with a child in yellow clothing kneeling in front. Behind them a large crowd of devotees sits on the ground, many women in white and yellow saris and orange scarves, with palm trees beyond. Cardboard boxes and scattered flower petals lie on the ground. A man in an orange scarf stands at right edge. Notice boards on the wall read Kailasa Darshan and Every Saturday & Sunday. The seated central figure wears orange robes, a seated pose with a lean forward, and no crown is visible.2008-10-27Outdoor photograph of a procession on a dirt courtyard in front of a whitewashed building with the sign "Sri Anandeshwara Temple" and an open doorway. In the foreground a man in orange robes with long dark hair walks forward with his hands outstretched, joined by a man in orange and another in white clothing with an orange shawl at right. Behind them a line of people in white, orange and yellow saris and robes stand near the doorway, with a crowd of devotees seated on steps and in the background. Posters on the wall show a Kannada darshan notice and a schedule for Saturday 6 and Sunday, October 2008. Several people are visible in the crowd, with a yellow-clad woman near the entrance.2008-10-27A smoky indoor fire ritual in a white-tiled hall. A seated figure in orange robes with long dark hair holds a ladle or lamp over a square brick fire pit (kund) with a flame. Around the pit sit many children and young people in white, some with hands folded in prayer. A man in white with an orange shawl stands at left beside a wall display of framed photographs, and more people in white and orange fill the doorway behind. Brass vessels and a kalasha sit near the fire, with a green cloth beneath the seated figure. The seated orange-robed figure with long hair and distinctive ceremonial attire is a person presiding over a homa.2006-10-02December 28 20082008-12-28Outdoor photo on a dusty ground at an ashram compound during a Diwali celebration with firecrackers. Several people in orange and white traditional clothing stand and walk about. In the foreground, a man with dark wavy hair wears an orange shirt and orange dhoti with a maroon-edged cloth, while a young man in white kurta and dhoti with an orange shawl stands at left. A man in a long orange robe with a long plain orange garment and a sash stands mid-frame near smoke drifting from the ground. A man in a yellow shawl and white clothes stands at right, and an orange-shawled figure is nearby. A white building with a sign reading Sri Adi Ishwara Mandir hangs at upper right, with a parked white SUV at left and palm trees behind.2008-10-27Outdoor homa ceremony under a canopy decorated with orange and yellow bunting and orange pennants. In the centre, a standing man with short dark hair wears a white kurta with an orange shawl draped over his shoulders, hands pressed together at his chest near a rising smoke plume from a square white fire pit with orange-striped steps and scattered flower petals. Behind him seated children and young people in white and orange clothing face the pit. To the right, an ornate golden-and-red deity murti is garlanded with yellow and pink flowers, with a brass oil lamp in front. To the left, a black stone idol is adorned with garlands, and a seated figure in orange kneels near the lower left. Palm trees and a white structure appear in the background.2008-12-28 +1 copiesDecember 16 20102010-12-16Outdoor Diwali celebration at AadiKailaasa in Bengaluru with a crowd of devotees in white dhotis and kurtas, and women in white saris with yellow and orange shawls. A young man in the centre holds a long red firecracker string aloft while another man in white lights crackers at a white and red painted ledge, with sparks flying. Scattered paper debris covers the ground. Behind them a tall figure in orange robes stands in a doorway with a saffron shawl, and a white wall holds a poster advertising events. Several people in orange robes stand nearby.2008-10-27Outdoor photo at an ashram courtyard. A bare-chested man with long dark hair tied back, wearing a saffron-orange wrap, sits cross-legged on a white plinth with red stripes and a leopard-print cushion, a microphone resting beside him. Standing at left in white robes with an orange shawl is a person holding a phone. At right, a man in white kurta with a rudraksha-style mala stands on sandy ground. Behind them a row of women in white and cream saris sit against a white wall with red stripes. Background signs read Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam and Sri Ananda text.2008-10-27October 27 20082008-10-27Outdoor homa at a red-washed temple wall with a signboard reading Sri Anedeshwar. A standing priest in orange saffron robes, with a rudraksha mala and tilak, holds a tray with an offering above a white fire altar emitting smoke. A seated figure in white ritual cloth and a shawl tends the fire beside baskets of wood and bowls of grains, fruit and flowers. Several people in white attire with mala necklaces sit on the white-and-red striped mat, and others watch from the right beside brass kalasha vessels and a dark deity murti. Whether the orange-robed priest is a person cannot be confirmed from appearance.2010-12-16