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Inside a small room with pink walls, a woman in an orange-red sari with a dark bun places a garland of white jasmine and red flowers on a person's head. Around her, a crowd of men in white shirts and dhotis, saffron-robed sannyasis, a bald man in orange with rudraksha malas, and children gather closely. A shelf with framed pictures and a deity murti is visible behind them, and an orange-robed man with a tilak stands near the doorway. The scene reads as a garlanding welcome, a darshan reception.

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July 02 20142014-07-02July 02 20142014-07-02June 24 20142014-06-24 +2 copiesJuly 07 20142014-07-07 +1 copiesA photograph inside a small pink-walled room with a red door and a wall niche holding framed pictures. In the foreground a woman in a rust-orange sari with jasmine garland in her hair bends forward, hands on the shoulders of two kneeling people in white, wearing marigold-and-white garlands. Behind them a crowd stands with hands pressed in namaste, including a shaved-headed man in saffron robes with rudraksha beads at right and a man in white shirt. A boy in white at lower right also folds his hands in namaste. Several visible people are in white shirts and mundus, and one man at left wears white with a folded-hand greeting. Bananas sit on a table at left.2014-07-02 +1 copiesA photograph inside a small whitewashed room during a padapuja. In the foreground a man in a red-brown turban and red-brown robe, with a red-brown shawl and rudraksha mala, holds a garland of white and pink flowers and offers it toward an unseen altar. Behind him, an older woman in a white sari with cream border presses her palms together, a man in white shirt wears a rudraksha mala, a woman in an orange sari holds a young child, and several young shaven-headed men in orange robes stand near the wall. One orange-robed man holds a camera. Framed religious prints hang above on the green-trimmed wall, with a small oil lamp and flowers visible at the lower right.2014-07-03A photo of a crowded indoor reception in a narrow corridor with pink walls and a dark wooden door. In the foreground, a figure with long swept-back hair, wearing a saffron-orange robe with a cream garland of white flowers and a rudraksha mala, sits facing a seated couple. A woman in a green-trimmed white sari with a red floral garland and a man in a white shirt with a red garland kneel before him; the man holds a red fruit and offers it. Behind them, devotees in white shirts and saffron robes stand with palms pressed together in namaskar, and several boys and a young girl are visible. Visible cues include the long hair, saffron robe and rudraksha mala, but the scene is crowded and partly cut off, so identity remains uncertain.2014-07-02July 07 20142014-07-07July 02 20142014-07-02July 04 20142014-07-04 +1 copiesJuly 02 20142014-07-02 +1 copiesJuly 02 20142014-07-02 +1 copies