Skip to content
Nithyanandapedia
Outdoor photo of devotees at a festival. In the left foreground a man in white kurta and white dhoti with a red-and-gold bordered shawl and a rudraksha mala holds a steel vessel with yellow cloth overhead, with white and red tilak on his forehead. Beside him an older man with grey hair and moustache stands with palms pressed together in anjali. On the right a bespectacled man in a patterned maroon-and-cream shawl and white kurta, with a red bindi and a lanyard, also holds a metal pot on his head. Other pot-bearing devotees appear behind under a tent or canopy with trees and an open sky. The scene suggests a procession of devotees carrying milk pots for abhishekam.

More like this

Open the gallery
December 31 20062006-12-31A procession of men in plain white dhotis and shirts walk outdoors under a corrugated metal shelter decorated with orange pennants and flower garlands. Several men balance silver vessels filled with white and yellow flowers on their heads, holding them with raised arms. The central man wears a green shawl over his shoulder and a rudraksha mala, with a red tilak on his forehead. Other men wear rudraksha malas and identification badges on lanyards. Behind them stand a dense pile of stones and a low brick wall, with trees beyond.2006-12-31A photograph of devotees carrying metal pots on their heads outdoors at dusk, as at a palakodam milk-pot offering. Four visible men wear white clothes; the foreground man has a tilak on his forehead and a rudraksha mala, and one carrier wears a rudraksha mala and an ID card on a lanyard. Some pots have flower garlands and yellow cloth tops. A teenage boy in a green checked shirt stands behind them. Behind is a stone-block construction site with a tree and a corrugated roof. A visible white-bordered text and logo appear on the right, and a red-and-yellow packet is held by one man.2006-12-31December 31 20062006-12-31December 15 20112011-12-15December 31 20062006-12-31December 31 20092009-12-31A photograph of devotees in plain white dhotis and shirts carrying metal pots on their heads during a procession. The pots are decorated with yellow flowers and white jasmine garlands, and some devotees hold similar pots in their hands. Several men wear white sacred ash marks on their foreheads and rudraksha malas, and a small bundle of cloth hangs from each man's shoulder. An elderly man in front, with white hair and a white shawl, holds a pot at his side. A decorated canopy and festoons appear in the background.2006-12-31December 31 20062006-12-31September 10 20122012-09-10A line of men in white dhotis and white shirts walk outdoors carrying metal pots and vessels on their heads and in their hands, many topped with yellow and white flowers. Several have white sacred marks on their foreheads and rudraksha-style beaded malas; one older man at left holds a pot in front of him. A shaded canopy with red and gold decorations stands behind them, and a low concrete wall with ash-marked ground lies in the foreground.2006-12-31August 09 20152015-08-09