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A tall white gopuram, the ornately sculpted gateway tower of a South Indian temple, rises behind a painted archway in the foreground. Market stalls with hanging bags and colourful balloons line the lane, and a woman in an orange sari stands at left. A man in white dhoti walks down the central pathway toward the entrance, and a cyclist with a bicycle loaded with a white sack stands at right. Several other people are scattered in the street, and the sky is pale and hazy.

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July 08 20122012-07-08July 08 20122012-07-08Photograph through an ornately painted gateway toward a tall white gopuram of a South Indian temple, its tiers packed with carved figures and niches. A small deity relief sits above the entrance arch at the base. In the foreground a busy street market with shops and hanging items, and several people walk or stand, including a woman in an orange sari at left, a man in a checked lungi, and a few women in pink and red saris near the temple gate. A cart loaded with white sacks sits at right. Hills rise behind the temple.2012-07-08Photograph of the tall white gopuram (temple tower) of an South Indian temple seen through the stone pillars of an entrance archway, with tiered carved sculptures rising to a finial. In the foreground, people walk along a street lined with small shops, parked bicycles, a yellow building and stacked white sacks, while a woman in an orange-and-red sari stands at left. A dark hill rises at right under a pale sky. Printed copyright and source credits appear in the lower right corner.2012-07-08July 08 20122012-07-08Tall white gopuram of a South Indian temple rises behind a stone gateway at street level. A small shrine niche above the gate holds a seated deity murti with a child figure, flanked by bull statues and guardian figures. Shops with hanging goods, cloth and sacks line the lane. Several people walk through the gateway, including a man in an orange cloth and white dhoti near a motorcycle, and a woman in a sari. Printed text on the tower reads a Tamil word. No one can be identified as a person from appearance here.2006-09-23July 08 20122012-07-08July 08 20122012-07-08A photograph of a tall white gopuram, the stepped temple tower of the Arunachaleshwara temple in Tiruvannamalai, rising over a stone gateway. Above the gateway a painted shrine shows deities, flanked by two bulls and two figures. Small market stalls with hanging goods line the lower left and right. Several people walk through the gateway into the temple precinct, including a man in a dark shirt, men in checked shirts, and a boy in a white T-shirt. No person is clearly a person; the scene is a temple exterior.2006-09-23July 08 20122012-07-08July 08 20122012-07-08A large white-painted gopuram, a tiered Hindu temple gateway tower covered in carved sculptures and niches, rises against an overcast grey sky. In the left foreground a blurred cyclist in a light shirt pedals past, one hand on the handlebar. A small auto-rickshaw roof and a few distant figures appear at the bottom edge. The scene is an outdoor temple street view with no a person candidate visible.2012-07-08