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A large outdoor festival stage with white and red striped steps and a red-and-white striped platform in front, decorated with banana trunks, orange and multicoloured bunting and a small colourful canopy. At the centre top, a deity murti adorned with red and white garlands sits on a red cloth-covered dais. Rows of steel plates hold offerings of fruit, sweets, pink and white powders and packaged food across the front, with pineapples, bananas and tall piles of plates in the foreground. Several people in white and cream clothing and saris stand or walk on the steps and near the stage, with a child in yellow and a few onlookers nearby. No one in the scene is clearly identifiable as a person.

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December 31 20082008-12-31A large outdoor offering display in front of a white temple stepped platform decorated with a red and white striped base. Rows of steel plates hold packaged grains, sweets, sugar and food items in wrappers, arranged in long lines across the foreground. Above, on the central white platform, bowls of fruit, pineapples, lemons, apples and sweets surround a deity murti draped in red and garlanded with flowers at the top of a red-carpeted staircase. Banana plants and colourful cloth decorations frame the scene. A few people in white clothing stand on the steps and at the sides, including a child in orange and a woman in white.2008-12-31A large outdoor offering display at a festival, with rows of steel plates piled with fruit, sweets and packets covered in cellophane. The offerings are laid across a red-and-white striped platform in front of a white stepped altar holding a deity murti decorated with garlands. Banana plants and a small kalasha-style decor frame the scene. Several people in white clothes and an orange-shirted girl stand or walk on the steps behind the altar, and a loudspeaker stands at the left.2008-12-31Outdoor festival scene with a large display of offerings arranged on red-and-white striped platforms in front of a decorated central shrine. Hundreds of steel plates hold sweets, fruits, packets and sweets in boxes, with pineapples, bananas and apples at the front. Behind, a central figure in a red-and-gold seated setup, draped in garlands, sits on a raised red platform beneath a deity murti. Several people in white and cream clothing move between the offerings, a woman in a pink sari stands at right, and banana plants and colourful hanging decorations frame the scene.2008-12-31December 31 20082008-12-31An outdoor temple-style ritual area under an orange and yellow pennant canopy strung with banana plants and palms. Several people in white and cream clothing and orange-trimmed saris work around a tiered white altar with brass plates of offerings. Along the front, many metal plates hold grain, sweets and white cloth bundles arranged in rows beside a red-and-white striped border. On the left, a garlanded deity murti draped in orange cloth stands near a standing attendant in white. A seated woman in white with an orange-bordered shawl leans over the plates on the right. Red carpet covers the ground behind the altar.2008-12-31December 31 20082008-12-31December 31 20082008-12-31An outdoor ritual space under a canopy hung with orange and yellow pennants and banana-leaf decorations, with a red carpet on the ground. In the foreground, a large deity murti dressed in green and red garments with a white floral garland stands on a raised platform, surrounded by rows of metal plates heaped with food offerings and small bowls. Behind the platform, a few dozen people in white dhotis and white saris sit on the carpet or stand, some with their hands folded. A red and white striped cloth covers the platform's base. On the far right edge, a woman in a white sari with a purple border stands near the table.2008-12-31December 31 20082008-12-31Outdoor ceremony under a tin-roofed pavilion decorated with marigold and white flower garlands, orange triangular pennants and banana plants. On the right, a seated figure with long dark hair wearing orange robes and a rudraksha mala sits in a red-curtained shrine above a flower-garlanded platform with fruit offerings; the figure's appearance is uncertain and is marked accordingly. In front, rows of devotees in orange and white clothes sit and stand with hands folded, while a man in white dhoti and orange shawl stands at left, and a row of white-clad men in front of the platform stand in prayer. Many steel plates with offerings are laid across the ground in the foreground.2007-01-01A photograph of an outdoor temple-style shrine decorated with marigold garlands, blue draped cloth and banana stalks. A long-haired figure in a cream and gold-bordered dhoti and shawl, with a red beaded garland around the neck, walks past tiered stacks of silver-toned plates and bowls of offerings draped in maroon cloth. Brass lamps stand before the shrine, which holds a deity murti adorned with flowers. Devotees in saffron and orange saris and dhotis stand in the background, and a drummer in white appears at left. Probable Swamiji (long swept-back hair, red rudraksha-style garland, ceremonial cream-and-gold attire) walking among the 1008 naivedyam offerings, with the page noting a 1 January Jayanti celebration.2009-01-01