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A ritual foot-washing scene on a tiled courtyard floor with banana leaves laid down. A woman in an orange sari with a dark red border, a brown rudraksha-style mala and a wrist bangle kneels on the right, holding a brass plate of red flower petals, and offers them to a bare foot resting on a green leaf. Beside her, another woman in orange garments washes a bare foot, and a man in a white dhoti with an orange-and-gold shawl stands above. Several other people in orange and white ritual clothing are visible at the top edge.

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December 22 20162016-12-22December 22 20162016-12-22 +1 copiesDecember 22 20162016-12-22 +1 copiesDecember 22 20162016-12-22 +1 copiesDecember 22 20162016-12-22 +1 copiesA photograph of a temple ritual on a tiled floor with green banana leaves laid out. Men in white dhotis with yellow borders stand with bare feet on the leaves, and their feet are being marked with turmeric or kumkum. A woman in orange robes with a rudraksha mala kneels and holds a brass plate of red flowers and offerings toward a leaf. Other people in orange and white clothes kneel and bow along the row, and a man in orange with a bare chest kneels at left. A woman in orange kneels at the centre beside a leaf. This appears to be a padapuja, a ritual of honouring the feet, with devotees in orange and white. No one in the scene is clearly identifiable as a person.2016-12-12 +1 copiesDecember 22 20162016-12-22 +1 copiesClose view of several pairs of bare feet in white dhotis standing on banana leaves laid over a tiled floor, with red flower petals scattered around them. The feet appear to be receiving a ritual washing or padapuja. On the right, a woman in orange sari with a rudraksha mala and white forehead marking kneels beside a brass plate holding yellow turmeric or offerings, tending the feet. Other figures in orange robes are visible at the top edge.2016-12-12 +1 copiesA photo of a padapuja-style ritual on a paved courtyard. A woman with long dreadlocked hair, wearing an orange top and orange skirt, kneels and washes or anoints the bare feet of a man in white clothes with a saffron sash. Brass kalasha pots and small offering bowls sit around the floor, with yellow flowers and green leaves scattered beside the feet. Several other people in orange robes kneel nearby, and more people in white stand at the edges of the frame. A faint Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam logo appears in the corner.2017-02-23A woman in an orange sari with a white forehead mark kneels on a stone floor washing a bare foot of a man in white dhoti with a gold border. She pours water from a brass pot while on a green banana leaf sprinkled with yellow flower petals, beside small bowls of orange and red powder. Milk-white liquid spreads over the floor. Another man in white dhoti stands at right with bare feet. This is a padapuja-style foot-washing ritual.2017-02-23December 22 20162016-12-22 +1 copiesDecember 22 20162016-12-22 +1 copies