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A photograph of a temple pavilion with a corrugated metal roof and a painted pillar in the background. In the centre, a bare-chested man with cropped light hair, a dark rudraksha-style bead necklace and white dhoti stands with his back to the camera, hands clasped, his shoulders marked with white paste. Beside him, another bare-chested man in a white dhoti has yellow lemons or fruit pinned to his back, and a third man in a white dhoti stands to the right. On the left, an older man in glasses with a white tilak and dark beads smiles while holding his hands together. Men in white dhotis and shirts with event lanyards stand around, and an orange cloth backdrop with string lights and a garland is visible at right.

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A photograph under a corrugated metal roof shows a bald, bare-backed man with a dark rudraksha mala bowing forward while another man in a white shirt presses grey ash or paste onto his back with both hands. A smiling man at left, wearing glasses, a white dhoti, a bare upper body and a rudraksha mala, holds a white cloth. Behind them, several men in white shirts and lanyards stand watching. A painted red, blue and white pillar with floral motifs and a bird emblem stands at right, and hanging green leaves decorate the ceiling. The ritual appears to be an ash application or blessing.2011-07-15A photograph inside a temple hall showing a young shirtless man with short light hair, eyes closed and palms pressed together in prayer, wearing a rudraksha mala and a red thread on his wrist. Behind him a man in a white shirt and white dhoti-style clothing applies white paste or powder to the young man's back and shoulder with a yellow-cream ball. A colourful embroidered cloth hangs on a pillar at left, and a framed photograph of a seated figure in red garments hangs on the orange wall above. Warm lamplight and a person's shape in the background suggest ongoing ritual activity.2011-07-15A photo of a lemon-piercing ritual at an open-sided tent-roofed temple area. A man in a white shirt and white-dusted hands, with white ash smeared on his forehead, presses a yellow lemon against the bare back of a young shirtless man who has white powder on his shoulders and back and a beaded rudraksha-style mala around his neck. Behind them stand other shirtless and white-clad devotees, and a striped red, green and yellow pillar with a white dove emblem. Lights and hanging decorations are visible overhead.2011-07-15A row of devotees stands barefoot in a hall performing anjali mudra with palms pressed together during a puja. Most are bare-chested and wear white dhoti-style cloths with gold-yellow borders and rudraksha malas; several have white sacred ash marks on their foreheads and arms. A bearded man in glasses and a woman with a bun stand in the foreground. Brass puja items sit on a cloth at lower left, and framed posters hang on the pink walls behind.2017-01-10May 16 20172017-05-16A large group of shirtless male participants sit cross-legged on colourful striped mats in a covered hall during an evening ritual. Many have white sacred ash or paste smeared across their chests, arms and faces, and several wear white cloths tied at the waist, white cords around the neck, and orange or saffron headbands with eye-shaped designs on their foreheads. Some participants hold small items in their hands and appear to be applying paste to each other. In the background a woman in a red sari stands near a red-draped platform, and ritual items are visible at the far side of the hall. Dim overhead lights and red and gold fabric decorations surround the scene.2016-12-02A photo of devotees seated on the floor of a temple hall during a lemon-piercing ritual. Several bare-backed men in white dhotis sit in rows, their backs dusted with white powder and fixed with yellow lemons. A bearded elderly man with a white beard and forehead tilak sits at right, while a standing man in white shirt and dhoti with a gold necklace holds something at the upper left. Orange cloth hangs on the left wall, and a glass display box and a framed deity picture stand at upper right.2011-07-15July 15 20112011-07-15A photo of a group of men in white dhoti and angavastram with yellow-gold borders, most bare-chested and wearing rudraksha malas, gathered in a hall with framed religious pictures on the walls. A man in the centre sits with his eyes closed while a seated man with a bare upper body and a rudraksha mala has his hand on his head in a blessing gesture, and a woman in a blue sari with a striped border stands at right. Nearby a man stands with hands in anjali mudra, another stands with arms folded, and a bearded man sits in the foreground in white.2019-01-08July 15 20112011-07-15A shaved-headed young Western man sits bare-chested in a crowded hall, smiling over his shoulder at the camera. Lemons with orange thread are pierced through the skin of his back and shoulders, and other seated men around him, some bare-chested and some in white dhotis, have the same lemon piercings. Their skin appears smeared with ash or pale paste. A dark rudraksha-style bead necklace hangs around his neck. No a person candidate is visibly identifiable in this frame, so no appearance-based claim is made.2011-07-15Photograph of a dense group of men standing close together at night, most bare-chested with white sacred markings smeared on their chests, arms and foreheads. Many wear red-and-white cloth wraps around the waist and white dhotis, and several wear red lanyards with ID badges around their necks. Some have rudraksha-style necklaces. A few women in white and red clothing stand at the back. No single figure is clearly identified as a person, so no appearance-based candidate is claimed.2016-09-09