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A photograph inside a temple hall with a decorated shrine at the back, showing a deity murti framed by a large floral garland and a banana-leaf torana arch overhead. Several men in white dhotis and bare-chested devotees in yellow or red lower garments stand and kneel on a kolam-patterned floor, some holding brass plates and vessels. A seated elderly man in white and a bare-chested man in orange cloth sit near the front. Girls in pink and lavender dresses with flowers in their hair and a woman in a green sari watch from the left. Spectators in shirts stand along the sides. No clearly identifiable a person figure is visible.

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April 05 20122012-04-05April 05 20122012-04-05April 05 20122012-04-05Outdoor temple scene in front of a decorated deity murti hung with bright marigold garlands and flower strings. A standing man in a white shirt and white dhoti with a gold border watches as two men in dark and orange-brown dhotis sit on the stone floor arranging bananas and coconut halves on a patterned rangoli-style ground. A shirtless man in a white dhoti sits cross-legged nearby, while women and children in brown and purple clothing stand at the edge of the frame and onlookers in dark shirts and red-checked lungis stand behind the pillars. This appears to be a temple offering or puja preparation.2012-04-05A dense crowd gathers inside an ornate temple hall with brightly painted pillars for a ritual before deity murti decorated with white and orange flower garlands. In the foreground, shirtless priests with white and orange dhotis and rudraksha malas sit on the floor before a blue-based altar holding a flower-decked kalasha and offerings, while a bald priest in an orange shawl performs the rite and a bearded man in an orange cloth sits nearby. Devotees in white shirts, saris and salwar kameez watch from around the altar, and a brass oil lamp stands at the right. a person is not clearly identifiable here, so no candidate is named.2012-04-05April 05 20122012-04-05A crowded temple hall with a dense audience seated on the floor in front of a shrine decorated with garlands and flower-draped deity murtis. A bare-chested man in white dhoti with a wrap stands at the centre holding a garland, while a shirtless priest in a white dhoti performs a ritual at a small table holding fruit offerings, with oil lamps and a kalasha nearby. Columns are painted in red, yellow and blue, banana stalks and yellow cloths hang from the ceiling, and many devotees in white, pink, yellow and blue clothing watch the puja.2012-04-05June 05 20122012-06-05April 05 20122012-04-05April 05 20122012-04-05A temple interior during a ritual, with a large crowd seated on the floor in front of a decorated shrine. The shrine holds a golden deity murti draped with orange and red garlands, with a small deity adorned with flower garlands beside it and a kalasha-like arrangement of flowers and lamps at the front. A priest in white dhoti stands on the platform near the deity, and another shirtless priest in a yellow cloth sits in the foreground. Devotees include women in saffron, orange and red saris, men in white dhotis and an older man in a yellow shawl. A rainbow-striped banner hangs from a stone pillar at left and a banana plant stands nearby. A man in the center foreground sits with hands folded in namaste. Carved stone columns frame the hall, and a small plate of offerings sits at right.2012-04-05June 05 20122012-06-05