Skip to content
Nithyanandapedia
Outdoor procession on a paved village road lined with trees, with flowering orange trees at right. Two women in front walk barefoot in rust-orange saris with rudraksha malas, one carrying a folded cloth. Behind them a column of saffron-robed sannyasis and devotees follows, and farther back a decorated float with a golden ornate canopy carries a deity murti or figure beneath a canopy with a small umbrella on top. A white car and a man in a striped shirt stand at the left edge. Sannyasi procession with a ratha/palanquin style float.

More like this

Open the gallery
November 15 20132013-11-15A rural road lined with trees and scrubby bushes, with a hillside in the background and utility poles along the edge. A group of people in saffron-orange and reddish-brown robes walk along the paved road, some in pairs and a few carrying bags. A grey car and a red truck are on the road, with an auto-rickshaw and a blue car farther back, and a buffalo grazes on the left verge.2013-11-15November 15 20132013-11-15November 15 20132013-11-15A procession of barefoot saffron-robed sannyasis and women devotees in rust-orange and maroon cloth walks along a tree-lined dirt road in bright daylight. Several men have shaved heads and wear rudraksha malas, and the women wear beaded necklaces and drape their garments over their shoulders. Behind them a decorated vehicle with a red, orange and yellow floral canopy carries a framed image of a deity and a flag on a pole. The group numbers roughly two dozen visible people, with some partly obscured in the background. No individual can be confidently identified as a person from appearance, so roles are used.2013-11-15A photograph of a paved village lane lined with red boundary walls, green trees and a palm at right, with a silver car parked behind a group walking toward the camera. In the centre, a bare-chested man with long dark hair wears a rust-red wrap and white garland, flanked by people in white and saffron-orange robes, several in saffron and orange sannyasi garments. Behind them, women in gold and cream saris and a man in white walk along the road, and more people in orange and white stroll further back near the wall.2016-09-26November 15 20132013-11-15A barefoot procession walks along a paved rural road lined with green trees, with a decorated palanquin or ratha topped with a golden canopy visible in the background. Several devotees in matching rust-orange and saffron robes with rudraksha malas lead the group; a shaved-headed man in front-centre gestures with his hands, and women in orange saris walk alongside. The scene looks like a ritual procession with the decorated vehicle at the rear.2013-11-15December 03 20142014-12-03September 26 20162016-09-26A procession on a pale dirt road lined with trees and a red brick wall, with a small canopied palanquin visible in the background. In the foreground, two shaved-headed men in saffron and orange robes walk forward. The man at front wears rudraksha malas across his chest, beaded bracelets and a sacred white marking on his forehead and arms, and holds his hands together. The man beside him wears a saffron robe with a red-striped cloth at the waist and a long mala. Behind them, a line of devotees in orange and maroon robes, several women among them, follow along the path. Sunlight and palm-shaped shadows fall across the road.2013-11-15November 15 20132013-11-15