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Outdoor photo at a temple-style tiled bathing area beside trees and a palm trunk. A long-haired man with dreadlocks, wearing a wet red cloth and rudraksha beads, bends forward while another man pours water over his head from a metal bucket with a yellow rope handle. The pourer is bare-chested with a white dhoti and rudraksha mala. Around them stand several onlookers: a man in orange robes with rudraksha beads, a man with a black head wrap and white forehead markings, a fair-haired man with a yellow turban and beads, a man in a white shirt and white dhoti, and an older man in white. Water splashes across the scene.

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April 29 20182018-04-29April 29 20182018-04-29Photograph of a devotee being bathed with water poured from a metal bucket held by a man at right, outdoors on a red tiled floor beside green shrubs and a beige stone wall. The central figure has long wet dark hair and a heavy rudraksha mala, kneeling with hands pressed together as water runs over him. Around him stand people in orange and red robes, a man in white kurta with rudraksha beads, a smiling man with a red tilak and rudraksha mala, and a man in white dhoti with gold border. The water is poured with a yellow cord tied to the bucket.2018-04-29April 29 20182018-04-29Outdoor scene at a temple-like courtyard with a palm tree and green foliage behind a low wall. A bare-chested man with long dreadlocked black hair and a red cloth wrapped at his waist kneels and bows, hands pressed together at his forehead, while water is poured over him. Another bare-chested man in a white dhoti with a white-and-red border holds a metal bucket and pours water from a yellow hose. Around them stand devotees: a man with a light-coloured turban-like hairstyle and a rudraksha mala, a man in saffron-orange cloth with beaded necklaces, and a bearded man in a white shirt and dhoti on the right. A man in the lower right, wearing orange and rudraksha beads, looks on. Wet red floor tiles and a ritual bathing scene suggest an abhishekam-style water offering.2018-04-29April 29 20182018-04-29 +1 copiesA photograph of devotees at an outdoor water-pouring ritual beside a tiled channel, under green trees with a grey wall behind. In the foreground a bare-chested man with long dark dreadlocks, a rudraksha mala and a red-brown cloth is bowing with his hands at his face while water runs over him. Behind him, men in orange cloths and rudraksha malas stand with bare chests, and a man in a yellow shawl holds a ceremonial string of beads. A man in white dhoti bends over the channel, and a man in a white shirt stands at the right. No figure is clearly identifiable as a person by the listed cues, so no candidate is marked.2018-04-29April 29 20182018-04-29A photo of an outdoor ritual bathing scene beside a stone temple wall with green plants. A long-haired man with a beard, wearing a dark brown wrap and many rudraksha malas, stands with cupped hands while water is poured over his head from a metal vessel tied with yellow rope by a man in a white dhoti with gold border. Around him, devotees watch and smile: a woman in a red sari, a man in a white kurta with a rudraksha mala, a shirtless man in orange cloth with rudraksha malas, a bare-chested man in cream dhoti with gold border, and a man with a light beard and a red tilak wearing rudraksha malas.2018-04-29April 29 20182018-04-29Outdoor photograph of a group of devotees at a temple courtyard with green shrubs and a stone wall behind them. In the foreground, a man with long dark matted hair and layered rudraksha malas bends forward while water pours from his head and body, wearing a wet dark maroon cloth. Around him, men in saffron/orange dhotis and sashes with rudraksha malas stand watching, one with a white tilak on his forehead and long dreadlocked hair wrapped up. A shirtless man with a red bindi and rudraksha mala smiles in the background. On the right, a man in a cream dhoti with a gold border holds a steel vessel tied with yellow cord, and a man in white is on the left. A reddish tiled floor underfoot suggests an abhishekam with water poured over a devotee. The a person candidate would be the bowing man with dark hair and rudraksha, but appearance cues are insufficient to confirm identity.2018-04-29April 29 20182018-04-29