A photograph inside a stone temple with carved granite pillars, niches and a sculpted gopuram-style ceiling overhead with painted deity figures. In the foreground, a crowd of people seen from behind with dark hair, several in orange or saffron garments and white shirts, faces turned toward the carvings. At the lower left a cameraman holds a video camera with a microphone. - Nithyanandapedia

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A photograph inside a stone temple with carved granite pillars, niches and a sculpted gopuram-style ceiling overhead with painted deity figures. In the foreground, a crowd of people seen from behind with dark hair, several in orange or saffron garments and white shirts, faces turned toward the carvings. At the lower left a cameraman holds a video camera with a microphone.

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A dense crowd fills a stone temple corridor with carved pillars and ornate ceiling brackets, lit by overhead tube lights. Most people are men, many bare-chested with white or ochre cloths, some wearing rudraksha or beaded necklaces; a few wear yellow and white clothing. Painted devotional banners hang from the pillars, and glass-covered deity shrines or offering enclosures line the far side. The image shows a packed temple procession or darshan line rather than a single identifiable ritual.

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A dense crowd of men fills a stone-pillared temple corridor, many bare-chested with white or saffron cloths over their shoulders and some wearing gold chains or rudraksha-style necklaces. Faces are close to the camera; several men look toward the right. Behind them, ornately carved pillars and beams frame a bright walkway lined with framed deity pictures, banners and lamps, with a decorated shrine area at the far end. A man at the right raises a phone to film. Overall a busy temple darshan scene.

Interior colonnade of a stone temple with carved pillars and a painted ceiling of concentric colourful circles. A group of about a dozen people stands in the corridor listening to a man in a light blue shirt standing at left. Several people wear white clothes, one woman and one man wear orange saffron wraps, and a bare-backed man in a yellow and purple lungi stands in the foreground with his back to the camera. Heads and shoulders of foreground onlookers are visible. The setting appears to be a temple walkway visit with a guided explanation. No clearly identifiable a person figure is visible.

September 18 2006

Dim interior of a temple hall with carved granite pillars rising on the right, their relief sculptures of rearing figures and mythic beasts visible. Above, a painted wooden ceiling with coloured floral and geometric panels. A tall brass pillar-lamp stands at left beside a wall plaque. Several men in white dhotis and shirts stand in a group at the lower right, one wearing a bald head and gold bracelet, others gathered near the pillars; in the centre a figure in orange-saffron robes stands near a blue metal railing, raising a hand. Devotees crowd the central passage.

A photograph inside a stone temple hall with carved granite pillars and a painted ceiling border in red, pink and teal. A dense crowd of devotees, mostly men in white and pale shirts with some women in saris and braids, gathers in the centre. One figure near the middle wears a bright orange-red turban and orange garment, standing out from the white-clad crowd. Painted deity panels line the far wall, and fluorescent light tubes hang from the ceiling. Many people are seen from behind or partially cropped at the frame edges.

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August 01 2009 - Kalpataru, Thiruvanaikaval, India

A photograph of a crowd gathered in a stone temple courtyard. Many men in white dhotis and white shirts stand among the pillars of a stone colonnade with carved capitals and a painted teal and red roof trim. A man in a light tan shirt and a man in white stand near the centre-right. Women in red and pink saris are visible in the background. A loudspeaker is mounted on a pillar at left.

August 01 2009 - Kalpataru, Thiruvanaikaval, India

Exterior of a carved stone temple at Dharapuram, Tamil Nadu, with tiered niches holding sculpted deity figures and pillars under an overcast sky. In the foreground, a man in a white shirt and white dhoti points up at the carvings, while beside him a figure in saffron-orange robes, with long dark hair, looks toward the sculpture. A man in a white dhoti stands in the shaded colonnade at right. The scene is a temple inspection with the stone sculptural facade as the main subject.