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A photograph of a crowded temple entrance at night, with a bright sunlit glare on the left. A bare-chested man in a white dhoti stands near the doorway, and a man with long hair and a rudraksha-style necklace is at right. A woman with long dark hair in an orange-red garment stands in the foreground, and a man in a white shirt and white dhoti is at right. A grey-haired man in a black shirt is in the lower centre. A steel vessel stands at left beside a metal railing, and a blue-painted doorframe frames the entrance. On the grey block wall at right is a printed Tamil poster with a portrait photograph. No candidate for a person is clearly identifiable by appearance, so the identity is marked unsure.

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January 07 20122012-01-07Photo inside a temple hall with carved stone pillars and a hanging orange signboard with a red arrow and Tamil script. A central figure stands with long dark hair, wearing a white flower garland with green leaves and a red-orange cloth, with a rudraksha-style strand visible. Two bare-chested priests in white dhoti and orange cloth flank him, one holding a ritual item near his face while another in a red shawl touches the garlanded man's hands. Several men in white and cream shirts and dhotis stand around, watching.2011-09-09A crowded temple interior with a dense throng of men and some women pressing toward a grilled gate on the right. Uniformed police officers in khaki stand among the crowd. At center, a man with long swept-back dark hair wears a saffron/orange robe and a rudraksha mala, and is surrounded by several shaven-headed priests in saffron and pink-red dhotis or wraps, some bare-chested with beaded malas. A man in a white shirt with a mala stands at left foreground. Stone pillars and a wrought-iron grille frame the scene, with a yellow-topped counter at right.2012-01-07January 07 20122012-01-07A crowded temple interior with a dense group of devotees pressing toward a barred metal gate. In the center, a man in saffron-orange robes wears rudraksha malas and has long dark hair. Beside him, a bald man in orange robes and a shawl stands among others. A bare-chested older man with a pink cloth over his shoulder and a sacred thread stands in the foreground, and another bare-chested person with a rudraksha mala is at right. Men in white shirts and dark trousers stand in the crowd at left. Behind the gate, a deity murti is partly visible among garlands and offerings, with ornate pillars and a yellow-painted floor at right. The scene appears to be a temple darshan.2012-01-07A photograph of a crowd at a temple entrance with a gated barrier and wall paintings above. A man with long dark hair, wearing an orange-saffron robe and a red garment beneath, stands centre-frame facing a bare-backed priest in white dhoti with a white cloth draped over his shoulder. A man in an orange dhoti with a yellow-orange shawl stands beside the priest, a garland held nearby. Men in white shirts and dhotis, a uniformed guard in khaki, and a woman in a blue-green sari with a pink flower garland at the left edge surround them. Visible people number about 20 to 30 in the crowd, with several partly cut off at the frame edges. Two painted panels on the wall above show deities and a sign board carries Tamil text.2009-02-02A dense crowd of devotees fills a temple corridor behind iron grilles and teal-painted pillars. At centre, a woman with long dark hair wears a white garment and a fresh garland of red and white flowers, walking beside a shaved-headed man in saffron-orange robes with rudraksha beads. A bare-chested man in an orange dhoti stands at right, and many men wear white shirts and dhotis, some with yellow shawls. Several people wear orange-saffron shawls.2012-07-23A dense crowd fills a covered temple hall with green-painted pillars and iron grilles. At centre, a man with long dark hair, a sandalwood forehead mark and a white shawl over a garland of white and red flowers stands beside a shaved-headed monk in saffron robes wearing a rudraksha mala. Several devotees in saffron and white dhotis and scarves surround them, and a bare-chested man in an orange dhoti carries a metal pot near the centre. Most people are in white shirts and dhotis, and a few foreign visitors appear among the crowd. Visible posters and signs hang on the grilles behind.2012-07-23September 25 20062006-09-25A crowded interior of a temple-like hall with a metal grille and lotus motif on the right. Several saffron-robed and bare-chested priests and sadhus stand in a group near a yellow-topped counter, one wearing an orange shawl and rudraksha mala, another with long matted hair and a white beard wearing rudraksha beads. Uniformed police officers in khaki and olive uniforms stand among the crowd of men in white shirts and dhotis, with devotees pressing forward on the left. The scene conveys a busy public gathering at a temple entrance.2012-01-07January 07 20122012-01-07September 09 20112011-09-09