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A photograph of a bookseller's stall at an outdoor pilgrimage market, with large stacks and rows of small paperback and pamphlet booklets covering the ground. Many covers show Hindu deities, gurus, saints and mythological scenes in bright colours, alongside devotional and astrology titles. A folded newspaper and a brown cloth sit at the upper right beside a bamboo pole. No people are clearly visible; only a partial dark sleeve edge appears at the far left.

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A crowded bookstall at a Kumbh Mela-style market, with towering stacks and shelves of colourful Hindi and Sanskrit religious books, many with red, yellow and orange covers. A large banner panel in the upper right reads Rupesh Book, and a man in a light blue shirt stands at the right edge handling merchandise. Wooden display rods hold framed devotional pictures and calendars. No deity worship or a person candidate is visible; the scene is a bookseller's stall under a striped cloth awning.2013-02-10A crowded roadside bookstall at a Kumbh Mela-style pilgrimage fair, with tall stacks of Hindi paperbacks and religious books piled on shelves and across the ground. A young man in a dark t-shirt and jeans sits on a low wooden stool, barefoot, reading or handling a book. Another man in a light blue shirt stands behind the stacks, and a partially visible man in a white shirt stands at the left edge. A yellow and orange tarp canopy overhangs the stall, with a hanging banner in Hindi script and a rack of colourful booklets and pictures on the right. Scattered loose pages and sheets lie on the floor.2013-02-10A photograph of a spread of many books laid out on a red and gold patterned cloth, seen from above. The covers show Hindu and spiritual subjects, including Faith Is My Armor (The Life of Swami Kriyananda), Nilkanth Varni, Sri Ramana Maharshi titles such as Ramana Shankara Forty Verses and One Hundred & Twenty Five Years of Grace, and a book about Arunachala and Tiruvannamalai. A portion of an orange-robed arm with a white cloth is visible at the top edge. No people are clearly seated or posed as the main subject; the books are the focus.May 10 20082008-05-10December 23 20112011-12-23A photograph of a display of many books arranged in rows on a red tiled floor and a patterned mat. The spines and covers show titles including Classics of Buddhism and Zen by Thomas Cleary, Dr. Wayne W. Dyer's Inspiration, The Cosmic Octave, Timeless in Time, The Supreme Yoga by Swami Venkatesananda, and several books about Sri Ramana Maharshi, some with photographs of him on the covers. Other titles include Essence of Shri Shri Ramana and books in Tamil and Hindi script. No people are visible in the scene.January 15 20162016-01-15April 06 20142014-04-06Photograph of many copies of a Hindi-language Bhagavad Gita book with covers printed on a peacock-feather background. Each cover shows a smiling man with long dark hair wearing an orange-saffron top and rudraksha-style beaded necklace, seated and gesturing, with the title Bhagavad Geeta in large yellow Devanagari letters and the publisher name Paramahamsa Nithyananda in the lower corner.2013-04-16A flat table display of many small and medium books laid out in rows on a tan cloth, with no people visible. The covers show portraits and photographs of a bearded man in white, a figure with a white turban, a saffron-robed figure with long hair, and a smiling figure in orange. Titles on the covers include Living Enlightenment, Meditation is for You, Why Meditation, and Dakshinamurthi, with an orange and white cover bearing a line drawing. A small red spot marks one book.2014-04-06A round table draped in cream cloth displays stacks of paperback and hardcover books and booklets from the KAILASA archive. Prominent covers show a smiling man in orange-saffron turban and robes on the Hindi title cover titled ‘भय से मुक्ति’, and a man with long dark hair in orange robes on the ‘Guaranteed Enlightenment’ Ashtavakra Gita book with a glowing mandala. Other booklets and cards lie around the table, and a calendar stands upright at the back. Partly visible people sit on a patterned carpet at the upper right corner.2014-07-19 +1 copiesA photograph of a white cloth-covered table displaying a row of religious booklets and paperbacks, with no people visible. Top row: several colourful paperbacks with deity illustrations and a pink cover showing a temple tower, plus a cream book with a Sri Yantra diagram and a pink book with a multi-armed deity. Bottom row: an orange-yellow book with an OM symbol, a pale green booklet with an emblem, a green-bordered book showing a fire pit, and a white book with a snowy mountain. Pale wrinkled cloth fills the lower half of the frame.2005-04-07