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Photograph of an empty, long colonnade in a South Indian temple corridor, with a dark stone-pillared walkway receding into the distance. The ceiling is painted with concentric rings in red, green, blue and yellow on a lavender ground. The left wall carries a long painted frieze of deity and mythological scenes in red, blue and orange, beneath rows of black panels with text. No people are visible in the corridor.

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May 29 20122012-05-29May 10 20122012-05-10July 29 20082008-07-29July 13 20092009-07-13July 29 20082008-07-29A long covered corridor inside a stone temple with rows of carved granite pillars and rearing lion-like brackets. The ceiling is painted with concentric rosette medallions in pink, yellow, green and blue, and rectangular wooden beams with lion heads line the top. Hanging cloth banners with colourful borders and yellow tassels hang between the pillars. A woman in a yellow sari and a man in white shirt and orange dhoti stand near the left in the foreground, with a man in a white shirt and grey trousers beside them. Further down the aisle, a few figures walk toward a bright opening at the far end.2012-05-08 +1 copiesInterior corridor of a South Indian temple with ornately carved dark stone pillars topped by painted brackets and mythical lion-headed figures, and a colourful concentric circular painted ceiling in pink, yellow, green and blue. Several people walk along the stone floor, including a man in white dhoti and shirt and others in saffron and orange saris, while two women in orange and yellow sit near a metal barrier at the left. A painted green and red serpent figure stands on a pillar at left. Warm lamp light fills the long aisle.2012-05-10A long stone colonnade inside a South Indian temple, with a carved granite wall on the left covered in painted panels of deities and narrative scenes framed in yellow and blue borders. The ceiling above is decorated with concentric circular medallions in red, green, yellow and blue. Rows of carved pillars line the right side, and a single man in a pale yellow-and-cream shirt and dark trousers stands near the pillars with his back to the camera, facing the open area. Distant figures are faintly visible further down the corridor, and the floor bears painted kolam-style markings.2008-07-29May 29 20122012-05-29January 14 20092009-01-14Night photograph inside a temple corridor with a painted ceiling of concentric circular medallions in red, blue, yellow and green, supported by carved grey stone pillars. Several visitors walk and stand along the passage: a bald man in a white shirt and white dhoti at centre, a man in a blue shirt and white dhoti at left, a uniformed police officer in khaki, a teenage boy in a red shirt, and a bearded man in a blue t-shirt with a rudraksha mala at right. No identifiable a person figure is visible.2012-05-20May 29 20122012-05-29 +1 copies