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A blurry evening photo inside a covered shed with a red wall. In the foreground a black-and-white spotted cow with gold-tipped horns and a yellow cloth draped over its back grazes on a pile of green grass, tied with a rope. Behind it on the right, a person in an orange-saffron robe stands with palms pressed together in prayer before a small shrine holding a golden deity murti lit by an oil lamp, in a gaumatha puja setting.

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November 21 2022 sripuram2022-11-21November 21 2022 sripuram2022-11-21Feb 3 2022 sripuram2022-02-03November 21 2022 sripuram2022-11-21November 21 2022 sripuram2022-11-21A photograph of a gaumatha puja at a cow shed. A black-and-white spotted cow with painted red dots on its forehead and horns, wrapped in a yellow-green cloth, stands on the left, with green grass fodder spread before it. On the right, a woman in an orange sari and blouse with her hair in a bun bends forward, lighting or offering a small oil lamp on the floor and holding her hands together in prayer. In the background, a small shrine holds a seated deity murti lit by a flame, against a red wall.2022-11-21November 21 2022 sripuram2022-11-21A woman in an orange silk sari with a gold border stands at the right, holding a small white and red flower offering, and feeds a black-and-white spotted cow with horns tipped in yellow. The cow wears a rope halter with a yellow-and-red mark on its forehead, and fresh green fodder lies on the sandy floor. Behind them is a golden shrine canopy with a deity murti garlanded with white flowers and a small lamp. The red wall bears a white kolam pattern, and the cow shed extends into the background. Her forehead has white and yellow markings, consistent with a goseva or gau puja setting.2022-02-03A spotted black-and-white cow with yellow-tipped horns stands in a cattle shed beside a calf, both with red-and-yellow decorations on the cow's forehead and a rope halter. A green cloth drapes over the cow's back. A woman in an orange sari with gold border stands at right beside a golden shrine with a small deity murti and oil lamp. Hay lies on the dirt floor, and red walls are decorated with white kolam designs.2022-02-03A woman in an orange-saffron saree with a tied-back grey bun and a tilak on her forehead performs gau puja in a covered shed. She holds a lit oil lamp in one hand and extends her other hand toward a black-and-white cow draped in a yellow-green cloth, with pink kumkum marks and yellow flowers on its horns. Green grass lies on the floor. A small deity murti sits in a niche on a red wall behind her. The scene reads as a gaumatha puja with aarti.2022-11-21November 21 2022 sripuram2022-11-21A woman in an orange saffron sari stands beside a black-and-white spotted cow inside a roofed open shed during a gaumatha puja. The cow wears yellow ribbons, a yellow cloth draped over its back and a yellow rope halter. The woman holds a brass bell in one hand and a lit oil lamp in the other, with a small deity murti visible in the background against a red-orange wall. A concrete trough stands to the right with decorative kolam-style markings on its side.2022-11-21