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A row of shirtless men and women sit cross-legged on a bare floor doing a ritual puja with brass vessels, small oil lamps, flowers and incense sticks laid out before them. In the foreground a grey-haired man with glasses wears a red-brown rudraksha mala and white horizontal ash bands on his arms and chest, and he holds a small offering with his fingers over a brass plate. Several others in white dhotis sit along the line, with a deity mural visible on the wall behind and a small oil lamp glowing in the lower right.

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January 03 20172017-01-03January 03 20172017-01-03 +1 copiesJanuary 03 20172017-01-03 +1 copiesJanuary 03 20172017-01-03 +1 copiesJanuary 03 20172017-01-03 +1 copiesJanuary 03 20172017-01-03 +1 copiesA row of bare-chested men sit cross-legged on the floor of a hall, performing a ritual with brass puja plates, oil lamps, incense sticks, a glass water bottle and yellow flower garlands arranged on mats. The foreground man has grey hair, glasses, white sacred ash stripes on his upper arms and a long red-and-brown rudraksha mala draped over his shoulder, reaching toward the offerings. Other participants wear white and red dhotis. A dark framed deity image hangs on the back wall.2017-01-03 +1 copiesJanuary 03 20172017-01-03January 03 20172017-01-03February 01 20172017-02-01January 22 20172017-01-22A photograph of a row of seated men in a hall performing a puja with brass vessels and oil lamps arranged on a mat in front of them. In the foreground, a man with grey hair and glasses wears a red-and-brown rudraksha mala and bare-chested white body markings on the shoulders, dhoti in white with a gold border, and beaded bracelets. He holds a small object in his hands over a brass plate. Beside and behind him, other bare-chested men sit on green mats, and a framed deity image hangs on the pale wall. Brass lamps, bowls, and yellow flowers lie on the floor, and several oil lamps are lit.2017-01-03