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A crowded, dimly lit narrow passage inside a temple-like shrine with a dark stone ceiling hung with multicoloured flower garlands in pink, white, red, yellow and purple. On the left, a bare-chested priest with a grey beard holds a tray with a lit oil lamp and white offerings. Several men cluster around a doorway. In the centre, a bald, bare-chested man with a beaded mala necklace and a long-haired man seen from behind wear white flower garlands. On the right, a man wearing a rudraksha-style headband, pink and white flower garlands and an orange-saffron dhoti-style cloth smiles as he is greeted. Calendar pages and framed devotional pictures hang on the left wall.

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A dim, ceremonial interior with multicoloured garland strings hung overhead and a tube light above. On the left, a bare-chested, grey-bearded man in an orange dhoti holds a brass tray with a lit oil lamp. In the centre, a shaved-headed, bare-chested man with a red-bead headband, sandalwood forehead marks and white flower garlands receives a garland from a man with long dark hair seen from behind. Beside him, a man with a red-bead headband and flower garlands stands with other devotees behind. The setting appears to be a small shrine-like room with wooden fittings and framed pictures on the wall.2012-05-24 +2 copiesMay 24 20122012-05-24 +1 copiesMay 24 20122012-05-24 +1 copiesMay 24 20122012-05-24May 16 20122012-05-16 +1 copiesPhotograph of a temple interior at night. In the centre, a bald older man in a white dhoti, wearing a rudraksha headband, bows his head while a garland of white, pink, orange and blue flowers is placed around his neck. Beside him stands a figure in saffron-orange cloth with long rudraksha mala necklaces and a wide rudraksha armband, with a white-marked forehead and hair tied up under a rudraksha headband. At left, a partially visible person in orange cloth is cut off by the frame. In the background at right, a dark stone deity murti of a seated figure is visible in a niche decorated with gold-toned ornaments, and a priest in a yellow-and-white cloth stands nearby.2012-05-18May 18 20122012-05-18June 05 20122012-06-05 +1 copiesApril 29 20122012-04-29May 18 20122012-05-18April 29 20122012-04-29 +2 copiesPhotograph of a dim stone temple interior with a dark granite wall. In the foreground a young man with hair tied in a bun and a red-beaded headband wears an orange-saffron wrap and multiple rudraksha malas, his head bowed. Beside him an older bald man with a beaded headband wears a white and pink jasmine garland and a saffron cloth, his hands pressed together in anjali before a dark murti. Other saffron-clad devotees stand behind them, and a dark dressed figure sits at the lower right near an offering. A black signboard with Tamil script hangs on the wall. The scene suggests darshan or puja.2012-05-18