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A photograph of a darshan blessing. A short-haired man in a white shirt with his palms pressed together in anjali mudra receives a forehead touch from a bearded person on the right who wears a pink and white flower garland. Behind them a man in a white shirt and an orange shawl printed with repeated a person script stands with hands folded, and another man in white stands further back at left. The orange shawls carry printed mantra-like script in red and gold.

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March 04 20172017-03-04March 04 20172017-03-04March 14 20172017-03-14A photograph of a short-haired man in a white kurta with an orange shawl printed with repeated script, and a red-and-beige beaded mala, standing still as a long-haired man with dreadlocks, bare-shouldered in an orange wrap and a pink-and-white flower garland, presses his palm to the first man's forehead. Another man in orange and white stands behind, and a printed paper sheet is held nearby. Ritual blessing in a hall with red drapes and orange-clad devotees in the background. The bare-shouldered figure with dreadlocks shows distinctive adornments and a flower garland, but the appearance cues are not strong enough to confirm the a person identity from the page alone, so the role is described as a priest performing a forehead blessing.2017-03-02February 28 20172017-02-28A young man with short dark hair and a small red tilak on his forehead stands with palms pressed together in namaste, eyes closed and smiling. He wears a white kurta and an orange shawl printed with Sanskrit text, with a rudraksha mala draped over his shoulders. Another person's hand rests on his head in blessing; that figure wears a pink and white floral garland and has long braided hair. The background is softly blurred with reddish walls.2017-03-03A smiling young man in a white kurta with palms pressed together in namaste stands at left, wearing an orange shawl printed with Sanskrit and a person-related text, and a rudraksha mala draped over his shoulders. Behind him, another person's hand rests on his forehead in a blessing gesture, with a bare-chested figure wearing a pink and white flower garland and a red bracelet visible at right. The scene appears to be a blessing or darshan in an ashram setting with a red-toned background.2017-03-03May 05 20172017-05-05A photograph of a shaven-headed man kneeling with palms pressed together in anjali mudra, a white vibhuti line across his forehead, a rudraksha mala and orange-saffron cloth draped over bare shoulders. Another man in orange robes and a white forehead mark presses his hand to the kneeling man's forehead in a blessing. Several people in orange robes and red and gold wrist bands stand behind them, and a pink and white garland hangs on the right.2017-02-27March 14 20172017-03-14A shaved-headed man in white kurta with rudraksha mala and an orange-red shawl printed with dark script stands with eyes closed and hands raised while another man's hand presses on his forehead in blessing. The blessing hand's owner, shirtless with rudraksha beads and an orange cloth, holds a handwritten card. Behind them, a shirtless bearded man with rudraksha mala and orange shawl stands in a pink hall with framed photographs on the wall. A dark curtain and a blurred figure in red appear at the edges.2017-08-03March 14 20172017-03-14 +1 copies