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A photograph inside a temple shows a man with long, loose black hair bowing with palms pressed together before a wooden door with iron fittings. He is bare-chested, wearing a maroon cloth and a gold armlet. To the right stands a large painted deity statue with an upraised hand holding a damaru-like drum, a gold crown, gold necklaces and a white bead garland, and a red and pink dhoti. A smaller painted figure holding a flame appears at the left edge. Beside the door, the bowing devotee performs a puja-style gesture of reverence.

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May 24 20172017-05-24A photograph inside a temple shrine. A man with long, black, dreadlocked hair falling past his shoulders stands bare-chested, wearing a rust-red dhoti and a gold armlet and gold bangles, with a gold chain around his neck. He leans toward a large yellow-painted wooden door with iron fittings, hands pressed together in namaskar as if in prayer. To the left stands a painted, multi-armed deity murti in orange and red dhoti with garlands and a mace, and to the right a large painted hand with gold bangles and pink nails is visible. The setting is a temple sanctum entrance with a garland of white beads hanging along the door frame.2017-05-24A temple interior with a painted statue of a multi-armed deity murti standing against a blue-and-orange wall, holding a lotus-like object and a flame-like item in raised hands, wearing a gold waist belt, pearl necklaces and a green sash. Before a large wooden panelled door, a potted green plant stands near a seated priest in white dhoti with bare upper body, hands folded in namaskar. In the foreground, a bowed devotee with white forehead markings and a rudraksha mala kneels with folded hands on a colourful striped cloth. A polished gold ornamental figure sits on the cloth beside a small brass lamp stand, with a red cloth at the right edge.2017-06-21May 29 20152015-05-29July 12 20172017-07-12 +1 copiesA photograph of a wooden temple door with a gold-framed opening, partly ajar, showing a figure in a maroon garment passing through the gap. Flanking the door are painted deity statues with four arms, one holding a trident and one a flaming lamp, wearing gold ornaments, pearl-bead garlands and orange-red lower garments with green sashes. Brass oil lamps stand at the base of the walls and a white and pink flower garland hangs on the door edge. The setting is a temple sanctum entrance.2017-07-05A temple interior photograph showing a painted deity statue on the left with four arms, holding a flame in one upper hand and making a mudra with another, wearing gold jewellery, a pale orange-pink body, red-orange dhoti and a green sash. Beside it is a large wooden double door with square panels, a black iron handle and worn orange paint. On the right hangs a deep maroon curtain. Strands of white beads border the painted wall, and a gold ritual object is partly visible at the bottom. No people are visible.2017-06-21October 26 20142014-10-26A photograph of a temple shrine entrance flanked by two painted dvarapala guardian figures holding flaming torches and a mace. A bald man in a brown dhoti wearing a red flower garland stands in the doorway, smiling and raising both hands in greeting, while an inner shrine glows with gold decorations and a deity murti draped in white and garlands. In the lower left, a bald priest in brown robes with a rudraksha mala faces the doorway. Brass oil lamps sit on the floor in front of the entrance.2015-05-29October 15 20172017-10-15 +1 copiesJuly 12 20172017-07-12May 29 20152015-05-29