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A smiling bare-chested man sits cross-legged at night, wearing a white dhoti with gold-bordered yellow edges and a long rudraksha mala draped across his chest with a small pendant. Green limes are tied with red thread to his upper arms and forearms, and white ash is smeared on his shoulders and chest. Behind him, other participants in white and yellow cloth and rudraksha malas are partly visible, and a phone rests on the ground at the bottom of the frame.

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A seated man with shoulder-length dark hair and a short beard sits bare-chested on a striped cloth at night, his skin dusted with white ash. Lemons are pierced onto his cheeks, arms, chest and shoulders, and he wears a white dhoti with a gold border, a rudraksha pendant on a cord and a dark green sash. Bangles cover one wrist. Behind him, other seated people wear white and orange garments. The scene matches the lemon-piercing practice described on the page, but the man's appearance does not clearly establish that he is a person, so the identity is uncertain.2018-01-03January 03 20182018-01-03Close overhead photo of a shaved-headed man with a white vibhuti line and red kumkum bindi on his forehead, smiling toward the camera. He is bare-chested with white ash on his skin and wears a rudraksha mala, a white dhoti with maroon border, and is pierced with several yellow lemons tied with orange threads on his chest, shoulders and arms, a lemon-piercing ritual. He stands on a stone-paved floor at night, with a wooden structure and a blurred figure at the upper left.2011-07-15A smiling bare-chested man with long dark hair, a moustache and beard, and white ash smeared across his chest, arms and shoulders stands before a salmon-pink wall with a barred window. He wears a rudraksha mala with a small pendant, a brown cord necklace, and a brown cloth around his waist. Several green limes are pinned to his skin on his arms, chest and abdomen, a piercing practice associated with the lemon piercing mentioned on the page. A small locket hangs at his chest. No identifiable candidate for a person is established from appearance alone, so this is a devotee or sadhaka participating in the ritual.2018-01-03A bare-chested man stands in front of a night fire pit with glowing embers behind him. His body is smeared with grey-white ash, and his face has a white horizontal mark on the forehead. Green limes with small green tassels are pinned along his shoulders and upper arms. He wears a dark beaded rudraksha mala across his chest, a white cord, and a small pendant at his neck. A single pendant portrait is visible on the cord. He is a devotee in a fire-walking ritual, with no identifiable a person-style presentation such as saffron clothing, a crown or swept-back hair.2018-01-03January 01 20192019-01-01September 30 20162016-09-30A man stands outdoors before a large tree trunk, smiling softly with hands clasped at his waist. He wears a white unstitched cloth draped over one shoulder and wrapped around the body, with a gold-bordered hem, and multiple strands of brown rudraksha beads with silver spacers around his neck, rudraksha bands on his upper arms and wrists. He has white vibhuti stripes on his forehead and a red kumkum dot between his brows, with hair slicked back. Warm golden light falls across the scene.2012-04-13July 21 20172017-07-21Close photograph at night of a shaved-headed man with a red tilak on his forehead, bare-chested and dusted with white ash, wearing a black bead rudraksha-style mala and a yellow cloth at his waist. Several yellow lemons are pierced onto his skin and one is held through his cheek by a thread, with orange thread tied to the fruit, a lemon-piercing ritual. A small round pendant with a picture hangs from his neck cord. Blurred lights and onlookers stand behind him.2011-07-15July 05 20172017-07-05A smiling man with long dark wavy hair sits in front of a golden throne decorated with garlands of red, yellow and white flowers. He wears a cream-white dhoti-style garment with gold-striped borders, a thick layered gold necklace with a large gold pendant and rudraksha beads, and a red bindi with white vertical tilak marks on his forehead. Another person's hand appears at the lower left edge. a person: the long swept hair, ornate gold jewellery, rudraksha mala and ceremonial seated throne setting are consistent with the page's identification, though the appearance is not certain enough to confirm.2009-01-01