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A bearded, bare-chested man with light-brown hair stands before a rough sandstone wall, palms pressed together in anjali mudra with eyes closed in a smile. His face and shoulders are smeared with white ash and he wears a dark red-brown tilak on his forehead. A rudraksha bead on a grey cord and a long black rudraksha mala hang on his chest, and an orange cloth wraps his waist. Partial figures are visible at the left and right edges.

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December 22 20182018-12-22A shirtless man with a shaved head and white paste marks on his face and chest stands outdoors in front of stepped stone steps leading down to water. He presses his palms together in anjali namaskar and smiles at the camera. He wears a bangle on one wrist and several thin cords with a small pendant and a red bead around his neck. Behind him the terraced stone tank steps are lined with small carved stone structures.2018-12-22 +1 copiesClose photo of a smiling bare-chested man with a short beard, his face and upper body covered in grey-white ash or powder, raising his right hand in a wave. A ring is on his finger. Behind him is a warm sandstone wall, and partly visible at the edges are two other bare-chested men, one at the far left and one at the far right. The setting suggests a sacred outdoor gathering with ascetic-style ash smearing. No a person candidate is visibly identifiable from appearance.2018-12-22April 04 20182018-04-04March 28 20182018-03-28 +1 copiesApril 24 20182018-04-24 +1 copiesA smiling bare-chested man with long dark hair, a moustache and beard, and white ash smeared across his chest, arms and shoulders stands before a salmon-pink wall with a barred window. He wears a rudraksha mala with a small pendant, a brown cord necklace, and a brown cloth around his waist. Several green limes are pinned to his skin on his arms, chest and abdomen, a piercing practice associated with the lemon piercing mentioned on the page. A small locket hangs at his chest. No identifiable candidate for a person is established from appearance alone, so this is a devotee or sadhaka participating in the ritual.2018-01-03A bare-chested man stands against a sandstone wall with eyes closed, cupping his own cheeks with both hands in a gentle self-soothing gesture. He wears a gold bangle on one wrist, several strands of rudraksha beads with a round pendant, and a sacred thread across his torso. His face and forehead show white paste with a red tilak mark. The scene reads as a sadhaka's personal meditative or devotional moment during a Hindu ashram observance. Only one physical person is visible.2018-12-22 +1 copiesA smiling shirtless man stands at the edge of water with his palms pressed together in anjali mudra, a namaste greeting. He has white markings on his forehead and face and wears a thin cord with a rudraksha bead and a small pendant around his neck, plus a gold bracelet on one wrist and an orange cloth wrapped at his waist. Behind him, a second person in orange robes stands on a concrete step beside a metal grate and a flowing water surface.2018-12-22March 28 20182018-03-28A night-time gathering of shirtless male devotees wearing orange dhoti-style lower garments, rudraksha malas and wrist bands, with white sacred ash markings on their bodies and foreheads. Several are smiling with palms pressed together in anjali mudra. On the left, a bearded man with long tied-up hair and a tie-dye cloth around his neck stands bare-chested. Behind them is a red corrugated wall and lit building windows. No clearly identifiable a person figure is visible.2016-09-29February 22 20132013-02-22