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A shaved-headed man sits cross-legged in the foreground, bare-chested, wearing multiple rudraksha malas around his neck and a sacred-thread-style cord, with white tripundra marks on his forehead. He extends his right hand toward a stainless steel plate held by another person's hand at right, which appears to hold ash or vibhuti. Behind him, several shirtless men in white dhotis with yellow borders sit and stand on a colourful striped mat, some wearing rudraksha malas. A boy in glasses smiles in the background. This looks like a ritual or satsang setting with sacred ash being distributed.

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A photograph of a shaved-headed man seated in a bare-chested devotional posture, wearing a long rudraksha mala around his neck and a white-pale sacred ash marking across his forehead with a red dot at the centre. He touches the bridge of his nose with his right hand while his eyes look downward. Behind him, several other bare-chested men wearing white dhotis and rudraksha malas sit or stand, and a man at the right in an orange garment holds a silver tray. Background figures are partly blurred. The setting appears to be a group ritual gathering on a patterned mat.2017-07-28December 18 20162016-12-18A shaved-headed man stands bare-chested in the foreground at a gathering, wearing a long rudraksha mala and a saffron-orange sacred cord across his chest, with a vertical tilak on his forehead and a small pendant at his neck. Behind him, several people sit close together, including a younger boy with white and red ash markings and a woman with a red bindi and dark hair. Some attendees wear saffron-orange cloths and rudraksha beads, and a shelf of framed photos is visible in the background. The man shows no clear cues of the a person presentation and is described only by role.2016-12-18January 04 20172017-01-04July 28 20172017-07-28January 03 20172017-01-03 +1 copiesA seated devotee in a bare-chested state with a long rudraksha mala and a pendant on a cord takes an offering from a steel tray held by a robed attendant in a rust-orange garment. Behind him, bare-chested men wearing rudraksha malas and white and yellow dhotis sit on the floor, one with white paste markings on his forehead and body. The setting appears to be a hall with a red wall and a blurred background. A copyright and source credit appears in the lower right corner.2017-07-28A row of seated devotees in a hall performs a puja, each sitting on a pink mat before brass oil lamps and small ritual plates with flowers and offerings. Several men are bare-chested, wearing white and yellow dhotis or orange cloths, with white ash markings on their foreheads and arms and rudraksha malas around their necks. A bald man in the foreground wears an orange dhoti and holds an oil lamp, while others around him hold ritual items. Behind them more participants sit in rows, and a few people stand at the edges. No individual is clearly identifiable as a person from appearance alone.2017-01-06January 03 20172017-01-03A seated group meditation in a hall lit by small oil lamps. In the foreground a shaved-headed man with a white tilak on his forehead, a red dot between his brows, white ash marks on bare shoulders and a small pendant on a cord sits in meditation with hands in a mudra. Beside him an older man with glasses and a dark-skinned man in an orange cloth wear rudraksha malas and white body markings, one with hands together in front. Many other participants in orange and white sit on mats behind them.2017-01-22A shaved-headed man seen from behind, bare-chested with a white cloth draped over one shoulder and rudraksha beads around his neck, reaches into a shallow silver plate heaped with dark seeds or beads held by a standing attendant. The attendant wears a white dhoti with purple border, a yellow shawl with green patterned border, and a gold necklace with a large gold pendant. Other participants sit on striped colourful rugs with white smears on their skin.2017-04-26July 30 20172017-07-30 +1 copies