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Photo of a temple ritual seen from behind. In the foreground, a figure with long dark curly hair, wearing a gold headband and a red garment, faces a shrine. A small seated figure in orange robes with a turban-like head covering is decorated with a thick garland of white, yellow, pink and purple flowers, and a saffron cloth drapes a stone platform. A brass kalasha, brass lamps and a metal bowl sit on a white-covered altar, and an attendant in an orange garment is at the right edge. Orange cloth hangs from a stone arch, with trees and a white building behind. The figure in the foreground is a devotee, and the central figure is a murti or depiction rather than a clearly identifiable person.

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A photograph of a seated figure in an open temple pavilion with pillars and a stone floor. A person with long dark hair and a rudraksha-style mala and pendant, wearing an orange-red saffron cloth, sits cross-legged with palms pressed together in prayer, facing a decorated seated image on the right. The image wears an orange and white cloth, a crown-like headpiece, and garlands of yellow and white flowers with green leaves. In front stand brass and silver ritual vessels, a small lamp, a tray with white cloth and a covered dish. Green trees and a white wall with red-and-white striped base lie beyond.2007-12-22December 27 20072007-12-27 +1 copiesOutdoor temple-style pavilion with grey stone pillars and red curtains. A woman in an orange skirt and red blouse with white flower garland stands with her back to the camera, holding a silver vessel toward figures seated on a raised platform. Behind her, two large metal murti figures are adorned with multicoloured garlands of purple, yellow and white flowers; one wears a red turban and the other a black crown. Foreground at left, a man in an orange garment holds a brass oil lamp. A decorated pot with colourful patterns sits at right, and brass lamps stand at the base of the shrine.2007-12-26A devotee in an orange sleeveless top and orange wrap bows deeply with folded hands before a pair of large statues under an open stone-pillared pavilion. The central seated figure wears an orange turban, orange robes and a rudraksha-style necklace, holding a trident-like staff and a drum, with a second figure in orange clothing and a tall brown headdress beside it. Both statues are garlanded with thick chains of white, purple, yellow and green flowers, and a shiva-linga-style base sits in front heaped with garlands and green leaves. Orange cloth drapes the back wall and columns, and a second person in orange stands at the left edge. +1 copiesA photograph of a temple ritual under an open stone pavilion. A standing man in saffron-orange dhoti and shawl, with long dark hair, a red headband and a white flower garland, holds a silver vessel and pours or offers from it. Beside him, a kneeling man in white clothes with folded hands and other men in orange attire attend. To the right stands a deity murti or image decorated with multicoloured flower garlands in white, yellow, pink and red, with a silver-embroidered cloth and brass lamps and vessels on the altar. A photographer with a camera is visible at the right edge, and a hanging wreath of marigold-like garlands decorates the pillars.2007-12-25July 07 20092009-07-07A photograph inside a stone-pillared shrine at an outdoor altar, where a priest in orange robes stands with his back to the camera holding a lit lamp toward a deity murti of Shiva and a consort, decorated with marigold and multicolored flower garlands and a red crown. Two other orange-robed attendants sit at left, and brass lamps, brass vessels, bowls of offerings, rudraksha strands and garlands surround the platform draped in orange cloth. The setting appears to be a puja or aarti at a shrine; no clearly identifiable a person is shown in appearance-based terms, only a priest in orange.2008-12-27Outdoor shrine under a stone colonnade with orange cloth drapes. In the centre, two metal murtis, one with an orange turban and rudraksha-like neck adornment, are draped in thick garlands of yellow, purple, red and green flowers, with a kalasha-like offering in front. A figure in an orange sleeveless garment with long curly hair and a gold headband stands at the left, facing the murtis with hands raised in worship. Another man in orange robes with a full beard stands at the left edge, and a bare-headed man in white is partly visible at the lower left. Tall bamboo poles with orange cloth are at the right. Visible people total three, with a single photo of the murtis.A photograph of a temple ritual under a carved stone pavilion with red curtains. A long-haired man in saffron-orange robes and a gold necklace stands with palms pressed together in prayer at the left. Beside him a man in white clothes with an orange shawl holds a silver vessel. In the foreground a tall garland of yellow, red and white flowers wraps a cobra-hooded structure, and a decorated deity murti with flower garlands stands at the right. Several people sit at the lower left among brass pots and offerings.2007-12-23December 23 20072007-12-23December 27 20082008-12-27A photograph of a shrine decorated with marigold and multicolour garland strings, with a seated figure in orange and red clothing and a red turban beside a similarly dressed figure, all on an orange cloth. Brass oil lamps, lamp stands, silver vessels and a kalasha sit on a grey stone ledge scattered with rudraksha beads and petals. A red curtain and a gold arch frame the shrine. In the foreground at left, a man in an orange saffron garment, garlanded with white flowers and wearing a brown head wrap, stands beside a partly visible second man. A deity murti appears on the altar. Two physical people are visible.2008-12-27