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Night photograph of a row of painted stone guardian statues seated along a temple platform at Annamalaiyar temple area, Tiruvannamalai. Several large colourful figures with moustaches, crowns and ornate jewellery sit in a line: the leftmost in yellow-green with a blue-green necklace, others in red, blue and green robes with gold armlets. Beyond them is an ornately carved temple gateway with a gold-tiered tower, and a small seated person sits on steps at right. The statues are depictions, not living people.