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Dusk view of a colourful South Indian temple gopuram with painted deity sculptures in blue, red, green and gold, fronted by a white signboard in Tamil script reading the temple name. Several people in everyday clothes, including men in white shirts and a woman in a sari, stand and walk in front of the shrine entrance with a parked motorbike and yellow auto-rickshaw nearby. A large banner on the right shows a painted figure. No identifiable presentation of the a person is visible.

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January 30 20092009-01-30January 30 20092009-01-30January 30 20092009-01-30January 30 20092009-01-30Evening street procession in a town lane passing a colourful gopuram temple with painted sculpted figures and a blue Tamil signboard above the entrance. A golden palanquin-style canopy carries deity murtis under a multicoloured striped umbrella, flanked by yellow and red decorative banners. Crowds of devotees walk alongside, many in white dresses and white shirts, with several women in orange saris and long braided hair, and men in white dhotis. Motorcycles are parked at the left edge, and shops with balconies line the street.2009-01-30Kailasa Paramparagatha Sūrya Vamsa Adi Chola Samrajya Kamala Peetha SarvajnapeethamMay 29 20122012-05-29June 04 20122012-06-04A photograph of a colourfully painted temple gopuram facade in Tamil Nadu at dusk, with a tall banana-leaf and palm-frond arch framing the entrance. Painted figures and sculptures in red, green, blue and gold crowd the tiered tower, and a deep-yellow banner with Tamil lettering hangs on the front. A crowd of devotees, many women in orange and yellow saris and men in white shirts, stands and moves near the doorway, with one lit flame glowing at the threshold. An orange flag stands at the right edge beside a painted guardian figure.2006-11-05Dusk photograph of a South Indian temple gopuram, a tall tiered tower covered in painted sculptures of figures and deities in blue, green and red, with lamps strung along its top. A dark tree and a dark pole stand to the centre, and at right a smaller shrine structure is lit with a blue-edged roofline. In the lower right, a decorated palanquin or ratha carrying illuminated deity murtis is surrounded by a dense crowd of people in the foreground. The sky is pale blue with wispy pink clouds.2006-11-05October 23 20062006-10-23A photograph of a brightly painted Hindu temple gopuram, a tiered tower covered with colourful sculpted deities and figures in red, blue, green and yellow, topped with a finial and a rooftop antenna. A large green palm tree stands at the left edge under a pale grey sky. In the foreground a white signboard with a red-framed portrait and the Tamil name Nithyanandam carries a copyright line, and the rooftop of a neighbouring building is visible at right. No people are visible.2010-01-24 +1 copies