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Outdoor photo on Varanasi ghat steps beside a stone wall. A bare-chested seated man in a white dhoti with a white cloth over his shoulder wears a red flower garland and a gold armband, and holds a small red book over an open yellow notebook. Steel pot and cup stand on the stone, with red flowers and loose papers. Behind him an older bare-chested man in pink shorts unfolds a blue cloth, and a standing man in striped shirt and blue shorts carries an orange bag.

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A shaved-headed man sits cross-legged in front of a wall hung with marigold and mixed flower garlands in orange, yellow, white and purple. He wears an orange dhoti with a yellow border, is bare-chested, and has white sacred marks on his forehead and arms, with rudraksha beads and a pendant around his neck. He holds a small bell and burns incense or camphor over a tray of offerings, including flowers and sweets. To the right, a second bare-chested man with white marks and beads sits beside a golden statue on a pedestal; a brass vessel stands at the left. The scene suggests a puja or abhishekam.2016-12-19January 08 20172017-01-08December 22 20182018-12-22 +1 copiesMarch 02 20182018-03-02A smiling shirtless man stands at the edge of water with his palms pressed together in anjali mudra, a namaste greeting. He has white markings on his forehead and face and wears a thin cord with a rudraksha bead and a small pendant around his neck, plus a gold bracelet on one wrist and an orange cloth wrapped at his waist. Behind him, a second person in orange robes stands on a concrete step beside a metal grate and a flowing water surface.2018-12-22A bare-chested young man with white ash markings on his forehead, arms and chest sits facing an older figure on the left, who wears a rust-red cloth over the shoulder, a rudraksha mala and dark hair wrapped high. The younger man wears a white sacred thread, a rudraksha necklace with a small pendant, and holds his hands together in a receiving gesture. Behind them is a brass lamp with a red-flowered stick and a brass kalasha-like vessel, with a wooden cabinet in the background. The setting suggests a guru-shishya initiation or satsang moment.2018-03-12June 17 20172017-06-17Outdoor scene on stone steps beside a tall plastered wall under a clear blue sky. Many shirtless men wearing orange dhoti-style wraps stand and sit on the steps, some with white paste or ash smeared on their bodies and faces. In the centre, an older man with grey-streaked hair, white paste on his face and chest, and a rudraksha mala around his neck raises one hand and looks toward the camera. A younger shirtless man in an orange wrap stands at right, and a crowd of similarly dressed participants is visible behind them. Gold-topped finial and a small shrine structure appear at the left edge.2018-12-22A bare-chested man kneels in a devotional posture with palms open and eyes lifted, wearing layered rudraksha malas, a ceremonial gold necklace, a gold bangle and a wristwatch. White ash marks his forehead and upper chest, with a red tilak at the brow centre. Behind him, several other shirtless devotees sit in a blurred hall, and a blue wall with a white panel forms the background. The figure is a devotee in ritual dress, and the appearance does not clearly establish a person candidate.2019-01-01December 19 20162016-12-19April 01 20132013-04-01Outdoor ritual at a stone temple of black linga-shaped stone bases (shivalingas) arranged on red stone steps during a Rudrabhishekam. A young man with long dreadlocks and bare chest, wearing a white dhoti with gold border, sits with palms pressed together in prayer, a white ash marking on his forehead. Beside him a man in a red silk dhoti and rudraksha mala with a bare torso holds his hands together, and further back other men in white dhotis and bare chests sit with ash-smeared bodies. Small white ritual items and a brass lamp sit on a cloth in front. Orange flags and a metal railing appear in the background.2017-01-02