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Night-time outdoor scene at a temple-like compound. Several men in white ritual clothes, some with shaved heads and one wearing red-orange cloth, stand in a line near a gate. At right, three grey stone deity statues stand on pedestals beside a dark stone wall with a small lit shrine doorway behind. A tall illuminated lamp or shrine glows through the gate at left. A standing priest in white dhoti and shawl with gold border appears to hold a ritual item. Dark ground, bamboo and red brick walls surround the scene.

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January 09 20132013-01-09Night scene at a temple-like courtyard. In the foreground, a line of men in white dhotis and white shirts stand with palms pressed together in anjali mudra, facing toward a lit gateway. On the right, a man in a white dhoti with gold border holds a small oil lamp near a low mound of stones, beside two dark grey stone deity murti sculptures framed by bamboo. A glowing lamp-lit shrine and a small flag are visible through the green iron gate in the background.2013-01-09January 09 20132013-01-09A photograph taken at night in a garden shrine. Several people stand or kneel facing a group of grey stone deity statues under dark foliage. A woman with long dark hair in white cloth with gold borders stands at left, and a shaved-headed monk in saffron robes with gold-bordered white cloth kneels at center, holding a small lit oil lamp or flame. Another person in white garments with gold borders stands near the statues, and a shaved-headed man in a white garment with gold borders presses his palms together at right. A red backpack is visible at right, and a reddish wall lies behind the statues. Five people are visible in the frame, and the shrine is worshipped as a puja at night.2013-01-09Night-time outdoor ritual photograph in a garden. A shaven-headed priest in white dhoti with a bare chest and gold waistband holds a lit oil lamp aloft in one hand while ringing a handbell in the other. Beside him, a devotee in saffron-orange cloth with a wrap over the shoulder stands with palms pressed together in namaskar. Behind them, three grey stone deity murtis stand on a plinth, and a low pile of rough red-brown stones is scattered with white flower petals and offerings. Dark foliage and a red wall form the background. Two physical people are visible, and the scene reads as aarti at a murti.2014-10-03October 03 20142014-10-03March 02 20132013-03-02Night photograph of an outdoor shrine in an ashram-like garden. A black stone Ganesha murti with a trunk stands on a stone platform surrounded by reddish rocks, beside an orange-red compound wall and bushes with pink flowers. Three people in plain white dhoti-style garments with gold borders stand in prayer. The person on the left has a shaved head and holds a red bag, the woman in the center has hands folded in namaskar, and the person on the right holds a lit oil lamp toward the murti.2013-01-09Night-time photograph of a small red-walled shrine with a grey stone deity murti. A bald man in a rust-orange dhoti and shawl holds a lit flame toward the murti, while a second man in white dhoti and white shawl with gold border stands beside him with his back to the camera. Through a green gate on the right, several people in white garments stand among lit lamps and decorated festoons. A floodlight and smoke rise overhead.2013-03-02December 29 20102010-12-29November 20 20102010-11-20January 09 20132013-01-09