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Photograph of a crowded temple interior where worshippers stand in rows with their backs to the camera, facing a lit shrine. Foreground devotees include a bare-shouldered man with a shaved head and a woman with a tall topknot and gold earrings wearing orange-red cloth. A woman in the centre has hair braided with a pink flower garland and wears a red garment. Several oil lamps glow on the dark shrine ahead, and a steel offering tray sits in the lower foreground. Blue walls and a wooden eave frame the scene. No clearly identifiable a person is visible among the people shown.

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Devotees crowd a temple queue in front of a shrine with oil lamps and incense smoke rising. A woman in the foreground wears a pink floral hair ornament, a red-and-gold sari and a red-beaded necklace. Nearby, a bare-chested man in a dhoti stands at the shrine's side, and a pujari in white dhoti with a drum-like instrument is visible at the right. Older men and women in saris stand in the line. A metal offering tray and a numbered marker reading 24 sit in the foreground beside a blue railing. The scene suggests darshan at a South Indian temple sanctum.2018-05-08A photograph inside a temple shrine doorway with blue walls and ornate gold-toned carved frames. A bare-chested man in an orange-brown cloth wrapped at the waist, wearing a red and white flower garland, a pink lotus in his hair and gold armlets, reaches toward a small shrine ledge holding a folded paper packet and a brass oil lamp. Beside him stand two men with long hair knotted high, one with a beard in a saffron cloth and rudraksha beads, and another in an orange wrap. To the right, an older bare-chested man in a white dhoti wears a rudraksha mala. Inside the shrine, a lit oil lamp, a brass kalasha-like vessel and a small bell are visible. A metal bucket sits on the ledge. Several people stand in the background.2018-05-08Crowded interior of a dimly lit South Indian temple during a visit. Several devotees in saffron and orange robes stand along a metal barrier, one holding a folded white cloth. In the centre, a man with a pink garland and a rudraksha-style bead necklace, a headband with beads and a vibhuti-marked forehead, presses his palms together in anjali. Nearby, a bare-chested man with a grey-streaked topknot bows toward a shrine grille; a shirtless man in the foreground touches his forehead with his hand. Lit oil lamps glow behind the golden-framed doorway, and other people raise phones to photograph the scene. Golden panels and a dark stone pillar frame the shrine area.2012-05-16 +1 copiesMay 08 20182018-05-08 +2 copiesNight photograph inside a temple of a lamp-lit ritual at a metal railing with an oil lamp flame in a brass tray. A man with shaved head and white forehead marks, wearing a thick pink and green flower garland and an orange-red silk shawl over a white garment, reaches toward the lamp with a hand. Behind him stand devotees, including a woman in a yellow blouse and dark bag at left, a man in an orange robe with rudraksha mala beside him, and a man in a brown kurta with folded hands. A bare-backed priest in a white dhoti with gold chain is in the right foreground, facing the lamp. The pressed-together hands and crowd suggest an aarti at the shrine.2012-04-11May 08 20182018-05-08April 29 20182018-04-29 +1 copiesMay 08 20182018-05-08January 16 20182018-01-16A crowded indoor temple scene with a metal grille gate and a lotus motif behind it. In the foreground a woman in an orange shawl with a white forehead mark presses her palms together. Behind her, a man in an orange robe with long curly hair and a rudraksha mala stands holding a yellow flower garland, flanked by a shaved-headed man in orange and a man in a red garment. On the right an ascetic with long matted locks, a long white beard and white-painted body holds a rudraksha mala. Several other devotees stand close together, with yellow flowers and orange cloth visible.2012-01-07January 07 20122012-01-07May 08 20182018-05-08