A photograph of a rocky river gorge with dark, weathered boulders and bare rock ledges on both banks. A narrow channel of calm water winds between them toward distant hazy hills. Sparse dry shrubs and small trees grow along the rocky edges under a pale, hazy sky. No people, deities or ritual activity are visible. - Nithyanandapedia

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A photograph of a rocky river gorge with dark, weathered boulders and bare rock ledges on both banks. A narrow channel of calm water winds between them toward distant hazy hills. Sparse dry shrubs and small trees grow along the rocky edges under a pale, hazy sky. No people, deities or ritual activity are visible.

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A photograph taken from behind a woman with dark hair pulled into a low bun, wearing a sleeveless bright red-orange top with a matching orange shawl draped over her shoulder. She gazes across a rocky gorge at Hogenakkal Falls, where a river runs between grey boulders and terraced rock banks under a hazy sky, with dry scrubby trees and distant hills. Small figures of bathers are faintly visible in the water below. No deity or ritual activity is shown.

A photograph taken through a vehicle window of a lush green forested valley under a pale sky. Dense dark-green trees and shrubs fill the foreground and slopes, with a rocky dry stream bed and cliff face in the middle distance. A small waterfall falls down the rock face, and a few small buildings sit among the trees on the right. No people are visible.

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