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A long dining hall with a row of seated monks and devotees eating from banana leaves on a table. A server in white shirt and clear plastic gloves at left serves food from a steel pot. Several seated men wear saffron/orange robes, including one with a long grey beard and one with a full black beard. Bottled water and steel bowls sit along the table. Ceiling fans, hanging cylindrical banners in blue, red and yellow, and white canopy fabric overhead. A man in the foreground right in saffron-yellow cloth presses his palms together.

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Seated diners eat a meal at a long table covered with a floral cloth, with banana leaves serving as plates and bottled water set along the table. A server in white clothing and a white cap, wearing gloves and an ID badge, serves food from a steel pot on the left. Seated at the right, an elderly man with long white hair and beard wears white clothing, and several seated men wear saffron/orange robes and sit in a row. Decorative hanging panels and fans are visible overhead in a hall.2009-12-30December 30 20092009-12-30December 30 20092009-12-30A dining hall where long rows of devotees sit on chairs at tables covered with green banana leaves, eating a meal served from steel buckets. In the foreground, a shaven-headed man in saffron robes and a woman in a cream sari with a yellow border serve food. Seated diners wear saffron and orange robes and white clothes; several have long white beards. Plastic water bottles sit along the table, and a wall sign reads a warning message. Other attendees in white with yellow shawls stand in the background.2009-12-30A long communal dining line in a large hall with ceiling fans and hanging yellow and blue decorative banners. Seated devotees eat from green banana leaves laid on a white floral-patterned table cloth, with rice, fried snacks, papad, pickles and small steel bowls. A server in a white shirt, glasses and plastic gloves, with a rudraksha mala, ladles rice from a steel vessel onto the leaves. Foreground diners include an older bearded man in orange clothing and a younger man in a maroon shirt with tilak, and others wearing orange and white. Several people in the background wear white and orange. Water bottles sit along the table.2009-12-30December 30 20092009-12-30A long row of seated sadhus and devotees eats a meal served on banana leaves laid along a floral-covered table in a large tented hall. Several men wear saffron and orange robes, one wears an orange turban, and others wear white. Servers in white walk the aisle between the rows, and rows of orange-clad people sit on white chairs at tables in the background. Plates hold rice, fried snacks, bananas and small bowls of side dishes, with water bottles along the table. Colourful hanging decorations and ceiling fans are visible overhead.2009-12-30December 30 20092009-12-30December 30 20092009-12-30Annadhan in 20062006-01-01 +1 copiesJanuary 24 20152015-01-24 +1 copiesA photo of a communal meal in a open-sided thatched hall with a concrete floor. Along long steel tables, seated men in white dhotis and shirts eat from banana leaves heaped with rice, yellow dal and fried snacks. A bald man in white dhoti and sacred thread stands at the centre serving from a steel pot, while saffron-clad sannyasis wearing rudraksha malas and gold pendant necklaces walk along the tables. A banner behind shows a smiling figure in an orange turban beside red lettering, and white banners hang on the walls.2011-01-16