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A crowded outdoor scene at a building entrance decorated with banana leaves. A priest in white dhoti with an orange-saffron shawl over his shoulder holds a flame or lamp at the centre, while devotees gather around him with hands folded and palms pressed together. Women wear sarees in purple, green, red and orange; men wear white shirts and dhotis. A small white sign on the right with a teal emblem and Tamil text reads 'Dhyanapeedam' and a line about meditation and meditation-instruction centre. Smoke rises from a window on the left, and a date stamp in the lower right reads 25 10 2006.

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A crowd of devotees gathers in front of a white building with a banana-leaf garland strung across its facade and banana leaves at the doorway. Many women in colourful saris, including orange, red, green and pink, stand with hands pressed together in namaste, and several men in white dhotis and shirts stand among them. A smoke or incense haze rises near the doorway. A sign on the right in Tamil reads Dhyanapeedam with an image of a woman, and a dated stamp in the corner reads 25 10 2006. No individual is clearly identifiable as a person, so the scene shows devotees at a ceremony.2006-10-25A photograph of a courtyard gathering at an ashram-style building with a balcony, decorated with a green banana-leaf garland. In the foreground, a barefoot man in white dhoti and shirt, with grey hair, holds a lit lamp or arati plate toward a man in white dhoti and shirt with a rudraksha-style mala. Nearby, a man in an orange shawl with a mala stands beside a man in white holding a mala. Behind them, a large crowd of women in saris, mostly in green, orange and red, and men in white clothes press together, some with palms pressed in namaste. An older man on the right raises his hands in greeting. A tiled walkway with pink and cream tiles leads through the scene, and a small sign hangs on the building wall. A timestamp reads 25 10 2006.2006-10-25October 25 20062006-10-25Outdoor street scene at a procession route in Chennai. A row of women in saris stand close together, several with hands pressed in prayer or clasped at the waist; one in a green and gold sari with folded hands is in front, a woman in a pale orange sari and purple shawl stands beside her, and a woman in white with a dark mala necklace stands at right. A man in white shirt at far right stands among them. Behind them is a building with a blue-and-white banner on its facade and red-leaved shrubs. Multiple devotees are present, watching the procession. No a person candidate is visible in this frame.2006-11-01October 25 20062006-10-25October 25 20062006-10-25A large crowd of mostly women in colourful saris gathers on a dirt road lined with trees, standing close together in a dense group. Many wear gold necklaces and bangles; one woman in a black sari with a red bindi stands near the centre, and a small child in an orange outfit is held at the front. A white-clad older man stands at the right edge, and a banner with a portrait and Tamil text is mounted on a pole at the upper left. Several people are visible further back along the road, and a few stand near a white wall on the right.2006-10-25A street scene during a ritual procession: a crowd of devotees stands with palms pressed together in namaste along a narrow residential road. In the foreground a woman in a blue and gold saree holds her hands folded, and beside her a small wooden table bears a silver aarti plate and a lamp. Men in white shirts and dhotis, a woman in a green saree, and an older woman in a brown saree join in. At the right a man in an orange shawl bends forward toward the offering table. A white van and a parked motorbike line the road, and a stone wall with plants is visible on the right.2006-10-23A photograph of a street procession at a temple-style ratha with ornate golden pillars, a canopy and orange flags, in front of a yellow colonial-style building. A deity murti in floral garlands sits on the ratha. Posters on the ratha show a portrait labelled with Tamil text and a smaller portrait of a person in white headwear. A dense crowd of women in colourful saris, including a girl in pink holding a tray of fruit, and several men in white shirts and dhotis stand around the cart. A parked white van and bicycles are visible, with trees and smoke in the background.2006-10-25A dense street procession in Pondicherry with a crowd of devotees in white shirts and dhotis, many women in saris in orange, red, pink and green, several carrying silver kalasha pots topped with coconuts and white flowers. Orange and white flags are raised at left. A green auto-rickshaw with a loudspeaker horn sits at right beside a gold-covered ratha-style float. Yellow building walls behind hold a poster and a large roadside banner showing a saffron-robed figure labelled with a Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam name. The scene shows a ratha yatra procession.2006-10-16Outdoor photograph of a crowd of women and a few children gathered in a courtyard beside a white wall. In the centre, a woman in a brown and gold sari with a red blouse holds a brass tray of flowers, coconut and offerings while a woman in a white sari and white shawl with a rudraksha mala presses her palms together nearby. A man in white clothing with an orange shawl stands at left with hands folded, and a woman in white at right holds a plate of offerings with palms joined. Other women in saris of blue, orange, green and pink stand behind them, several with hands folded in greeting. Chalk kolam designs mark the ground below. No candidate for the named a person is clearly visible.2006-10-25Photo 117427192014-07-04