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A seated man in an ornate silver-and-red throne chair with a tiger-shaped armrest blesses a kneeling bare-chested devotee whose head is bowed, his hand resting on the devotee's head. The seated figure wears a leopard-print headband with green leaves in his hair, an orange-brown shawl, a heavy gold necklace with a large gold pendant, gold armbands and bangles, and a tilak on his forehead. Beside him an attendant in white ritual cloth with white sandalwood markings on his forehead holds the devotee's head. Red and orange cloth hangs in the background beside brass and temple decorations. Ritual blessing scene.

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October 10 20172017-10-10October 10 20172017-10-10 +1 copiesSeptember 10 20172017-09-10October 10 20172017-10-10 +1 copiesOctober 10 20172017-10-10A photograph of a temple ritual in which a man with long dark hair wrapped in a leopard-print headcloth and adorned with a green leaf crown sits on an ornate silver throne with a red cushion. He wears a saffron-orange shawl, heavy gold necklaces, gold armlets and bangles, and a tilak on his forehead, and places his hands on the heads of two seated devotees in white dhotis with folded hands. A young attendant with rudraksha malas and a sacred thread stands at left beside a smoking incense or homa stream, and saffron-robed attendants stand in the background near a carved stone deity murti and a lit lamp. The man on the throne is.2017-10-10 +1 copiesOctober 10 20172017-10-10 +1 copiesOctober 10 20172017-10-10October 10 20172017-10-10September 10 20172017-09-10 +2 copiesAugust 21 20172017-08-21August 21 20172017-08-21