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Close photo of a person's forearm and hand, wearing a thick gold bangle and a ring, reaching toward an ornate gold-plated stand with a tiered finial and lamp-like fixture. Behind it are white jasmine-style flowers, red flowers and a small copper-coloured vessel with an orange cloth. Only the arm and hand are visible; no face or full body appears in frame.

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Close photo of a temple shrine decorated with pink and red flowers, white jasmine garlands and green leaves. Two arms and hands of a priest, one wearing a gold bangle and a ring, are placing or adjusting flowers around a gold Nataraja dancing Shiva figure and a gold ornate canopy or palanquin-like shrine piece. Silver cups stand in a row below in front of the offering platform. The hands are the only visible people; no face is shown, so no one is identified.2012-05-11Close-up photograph of a puja at a gold-decorated shrine. A person's bare forearm and hand, wearing a gold bangle, pours or offers from a metal vessel near a tray of pink and yellow flower petals and white blossoms. Ornate gold pillars, a gold canopy and a gold-rimmed altar frame the scene, with a deity murti partly visible in the background behind the flowers. A steel bowl sits at the lower edge. a person not clearly visible; only an arm is shown.2012-05-14 +1 copiesMay 11 20122012-05-11May 11 20122012-05-11May 11 20122012-05-11Close photograph of a temple shrine with a gilded ornate canopy above a small golden deity figure. A brass oil lamp with a bright flame sits at left beside a golden Nataraja dancing Shiva figure within a flame arch. Heaps of white jasmine and pink flowers and petals lie in front. Only hands are visible at right, one adjusting the flowers near the shrine, with no full person in view.2012-05-14 +1 copiesClose-up photograph of a ritual scene with a forearm and fist visible at left, wearing a gold bangle, reaching toward a polished silver vessel with a small flame burning on a lamp. The silver object sits on an ornate gold-embossed tray or platform. Behind it, a figure in orange-saffron robes with gold borders is partially visible, and pink flower petals lie at the right edge. The setting suggests a puja offering with an oil lamp, though only the hand, lamp and robe are shown.2011-02-25 +1 copiesMay 11 20122012-05-11May 10 20122012-05-10A priest in a red and orange ceremonial dhoti and shawl, bare-chested with a rudraksha mala and bangles, stands at left raising one arm to offer a flame toward a decorated deity murti. The murti is adorned with white and red flower garlands and a gold necklace, set in an ornate golden arch flanked by two large gilded ceremonial discs. Multiple brass oil lamps with lit flames stand on a tiered offering stand decorated with marigold and white garlands, leaves, and small figurines at the base. Gold and yellow draped fabric forms the backdrop. Visible in the image: one priest only, so no additional people are shown.2015-07-06June 05 20122012-06-05 +1 copiesMay 14 20122012-05-14 +1 copies