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A photograph of a group of devotees seated on the floor in a hall, many bare-chested with white vibhuti marks on their foreheads and dark rudraksha malas around their necks. In the foreground a shaved-headed man wearing thin-framed glasses sits with palms pressed together in anjali, eyes lowered in prayer. Behind him others sit in similar postures, some wearing white dhotis, and small oil lamps glow on the pink mat. The scene is soft-focus and blurred in the background.

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Photograph of a seated group of devotees in a hall during a ritual, many with bare upper bodies and white ritual cloths. In the foreground a bald man with glasses and a dark rudraksha mala, with white sacred ash on his forehead and gold bangles, presses his palms together in anjali mudra with eyes lowered. Beside him a man with a bare chest and reddish-brown beaded necklace also sits with hands folded. Lit oil lamps and a pink mat are visible on the floor, with orange-robed figures blurred in the background. Whether the foreground man is a person cannot be determined from appearance alone.2017-01-15May 25 20172017-05-25 +1 copiesMay 27 20172017-05-27January 04 20172017-01-04 +1 copiesA seated row of devotees with palms pressed together in namaste, eyes closed, in a pink-walled hall. The central man wears an orange saffron dhoti and a long rudraksha mala, with white horizontal tilak stripes on his forehead and arms. Beside and behind him, other men sit bare-chested with white stripes on their chests and shaven heads, some in white and yellow cloth, and one wears a maroon cloth. Brass oil lamps and offerings lie on the floor at the left, and a deity murti hangs in the background behind a garland. The image is blurred at the edges. No candidate is clearly identifiable by appearance, so the central figure is described by role only.2017-01-06 +1 copiesJanuary 04 20172017-01-04 +1 copiesJanuary 04 20172017-01-04 +1 copiesJanuary 04 20172017-01-04A close photograph of a bald man with a red bindi and white horizontal vibhuti lines on his forehead and shoulders, kneeling with palms pressed together in anjali mudra and eyes closed. He wears layered rudraksha malas, a pendant necklace, a small earring and a gold bangle, and is bare-chested with a thin sacred thread over one shoulder. A woman with long dark hair is partly visible at left, and seated devotees in white clothing fill the blurred hall behind him, with framed artwork on the walls. The appearance is consistent with a person in a devotional posture, but his identity is uncertain from the image.2017-02-02 +1 copiesFebruary 02 20172017-02-02January 08 20172017-01-08A photograph of a seated ritual group in a hall with pink walls and framed posters behind them. Several men in orange and saffron dhotis and wraps sit in a row on cushions, many with white vibhuti marks on their foreheads and bodies, rudraksha and bead malas, and hands folded in namaskar or raised in mudra. A brass thali and small brass lamps and offering vessels sit on a low table in the foreground. A man at the far left has long blond hair in a bun and wears a mala, and a man at the far right wears an orange wrap. The people appear focused in prayer or puja, with several others partially visible in the background.2017-01-01