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A street scene in front of a South Indian temple with a tall, carved gopuram tower and a white-walled entrance with a pillared arched doorway. A wide stone staircase leads up to the entrance, where several people in white and dhoti are walking. In the foreground, a woman in a red top and white shawl carries a bag past parked motorcycles, while street vendors with colourful cloth stalls line the left side. A yellow sign reads LATRINE and a Tamil-script public toilet sign hangs on the right. Visible people number roughly a dozen.

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Street view of a South Indian temple entrance with a tall stone gopuram carved with figures above a whitewashed gateway and a long granite staircase leading up to the arched doorway. Several people walk in the foreground and on the steps, including a woman in a white sari and a man in white. Shops with hanging cloth and a parked row of motorcycles line the lower area. A large yellow sign reads LATRINE in English, with Malayalam script above and Hindi-style Devanagari below. Inside the picture the scene is daytime and outdoors.2006-11-10A busy street scene in front of a temple with a tall, ornately carved gopuram tower behind a white-walled entrance and a broad stone staircase. On the left, a wooden-roofed shop front with hanging cloths and a canopy displays goods. Pedestrians walk across the road, including a man in a white shirt and a woman in a green sari carrying a bag. Motorcycles and scooters are parked along the right, beside a white car in the foreground and a yellow sign with Tamil text. Several people in white dhotis and mixed dress move around the courtyard steps.2006-11-09November 10 20062006-11-10A photograph of a temple street scene dominated by a tall, whitewashed gopuram (temple tower) covered in sculpted deity figures and rising above a low roofline. In the foreground two men walk away from the camera, wearing white dhotis and white shirts with saffron-orange shawls draped over their shoulders; one carries a dark shoulder bag. To the left, a motorcycle rider and other passersby move along a dirt road beside a colonnaded pavilion with a small coloured shrine tower. On the right, a thatched-roof shop front displays colourful signboards, and an elderly man in a striped shirt stands at the edge of the frame. Overhead, power lines cross a pale sky and trees frame the scene.2009-01-29November 09 20062006-11-09March 17 20182018-03-17Photograph of a stone temple entrance with a curved grey canopy over the steps leading up to an ornate gopuram-style doorway. Several people walk up and down the steps: a woman in an orange sari and a man in white dhoti and shirt descend, a man in red shirt and white dhoti walks up, and an elderly woman in a white sari with folded hands stands in the foreground. Blue informational signboards with text stand at the steps, and a carved deity panel with a blue background appears at the upper right.2011-09-09September 09 20112011-09-09Photograph of a crowd at a South Indian temple entrance under a tall white gopuram carved with figures. In the centre, a group of people in white clothes and saffron-orange robes descends a stone staircase toward the viewer, some carrying garlands. A tree shades the left side, and a signboard on the left reads a Tamil name with the word sannidhi. Several people in the foreground, mostly men in white shirts and dhotis, walk among the crowd, and a gold-trimmed shrine façade with colourful painted deity figures stands on the right. Overcast sky above.2006-09-24October 12 20122012-10-12March 05 20202020-03-05Outdoor photo of a South Indian temple gateway with a tall, ornately carved white gopuram tower behind a pillared stone mandapam. A crowd moves across a paved courtyard. In the foreground, several men wear saffron/orange dhotis and shawls, one with a long garland of beads; a man in a white shirt and an older man in white dhoti stand nearby. Some saffron-clad figures carry a bundle of cloth, and a child in a red shirt walks among them. Brass lamps and carved lion-head finials decorate the roof edges. Mostly devotee and temple-visit activity.2012-10-12