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A bare-chested man in white dhoti digs soil with a hand hoe beside a dirt path in front of a red brick wall. A white signboard above a low concrete ledge reads Nithyananda Gurukul, Vedic Spiritual Education Center, with a portrait of a man in a turban on the sign. Laundry hangs on the wall behind, and a rudraksha-style mala hangs on his chest. The ground is bare earth with weeds along the edge.

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A man in a plain white shirt and white dhoti kneels and digs into the earth with a long iron tool, loosening soil in a shallow pit lined with pale concrete edging. Behind him, two men in dark red and maroon cloth stand near a gold-legged chair draped with a pink cloth and a striped blue and purple textile. The setting appears to be an outdoor night-time ritual site with a ground-level excavation.2013-04-24February 05 20172017-02-05April 24 20132013-04-24April 24 20132013-04-24A man in a white shirt and white dhoti squats at night on bare earth, digging a hole with a long iron tool held in both hands. Behind him, a sadhu in ochre-orange robes with rudraksha beads and a striped shawl kneels or sits near a low stone ledge, and a red-upholstered chair with gold-tipped legs is partly visible at left. Pale stone blocks surround the dug area.2013-04-24April 24 20132013-04-24A man in a white shirt and white dhoti crouches on a stone-edged pit, digging the earth with a long iron rod. Beside him, a seated figure in a rust-red robe with a rudraksha mala and a light forehead marking watches closely. Behind them, a red garment and golden ornamented stand are visible at the edge of the frame. Sandy soil fills the pit, and the setting is an outdoor paved ground with concrete borders.2013-04-24August 18 20162016-08-18Night-time photo of two men digging soil in a sandy pit beside stone-edged square enclosures. The man in front is shaved-headed, bare-chested, wearing an orange-and-white head band, orange cloth over the shoulder and a rudraksha-style bead necklace, crouching and scooping earth with his hands. Beside him a man in a white shirt and white trousers holds a long wooden digging stick with both hands. Behind them, a red upholstered chair with gold legs and a figure in red-and-gold striped garments are partly visible at the left edge. Orange and pink cloths lie on the ground. Whether the front figure is the swami is uncertain from appearance alone.2013-04-24Night-time outdoor scene at a stone-walled pit or well ring filled with loose brown earth. A bare-chested man with a shaved head kneels at left, wearing a reddish-brown waist cloth and a dark rudraksha-style bead mala across his shoulders, and scoops or pats the soil with his hands. At right, a standing man in an all-white dhoti and white shirt holds a long dark iron rod or digging tool planted in the ground. Weathered concrete walls and a tree trunk with roots appear behind them.2013-04-24April 24 20132013-04-24A outdoor photograph of a dusty clearing beside a large spreading tree with a pale trunk, with young saplings staked along a low whitish wall behind. A barefoot man in a white shirt and white dhoti bends forward, digging or working the ground with a tool near a bare rock. A man in a white shirt and light trousers walks past on the left, and another worker in white crouches on the right beside a small brick-edged bed. No a person candidate is visible; the people wear plain white work clothes.