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Photo inside a temple shrine during a puja. A priest with a shaved head, bare-chested and wearing a white dhoti with a rudraksha mala, sits on an orange cloth beside a child in an orange kurta and white pants who holds a brass bowl of red rose petals. A woman in a pink salwar kameez with a face mask sits to the left, her palms pressed together. Before them stand a deity murti draped in white and red garlands and red roses, and rows of brass oil lamps on an orange cloth. Three people are visible.

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Photo 82890912022-10-05Photo 99178062022-10-05 +1 copiesKAILASA SAN JOSE, USA on 10/5/20222022-10-05 +1 copiesA puja at a shrine in a temple hall. A woman with curly reddish hair wearing an orange sari and pink top sits cross-legged on an orange cloth, hands raised in anjali before a tray of bananas, oranges and rose petals. Behind her, a shirtless man in white dhoti with a rudraksha mala sits on the floor beside a copper bowl of red petals. On the right, a deity murti is adorned with white flower garlands and red roses on an orange-draped altar. In the foreground, rows of brass lamps and a brass lamp stand rest on the orange cloth. An elderly bald man in white dhoti with a gold chain gestures with his hands at the lower left, near a microphone.2022-10-05 +1 copiesKAILASA SAN JOSE, USA on 10/5/20222022-10-05 +1 copiesPhotograph inside a temple shrine during a puja. A bare-chested priest with a sacred thread and rudraksha mala sits on the floor, holding a silver bowl of red rose petals. Opposite him, a woman in a red blouse and purple patterned sari bends forward over a brass plate of bananas and fruit. A second figure in white ritual dress sits in the lower left foreground. Behind them a deity murti is decorated with white jasmine garlands and red roses, and a large arrangement of red roses lies on an orange cloth. Rows of brass oil lamps and a brass kalasha stand on orange fabric, with a brass lamp hanging at right.2022-10-05 +1 copiesPhoto 99172052022-10-04 +1 copiesPhoto 99206382022-10-05 +1 copiesKAILASA SAN JOSE, USA on 10/5/20222022-10-05 +1 copiesKAILASA SAN JOSE, USA on 10/5/20222022-10-05 +1 copiesKAILASA SAN JOSE, USA on 10/5/20222022-10-05 +1 copiesA photograph of a temple puja inside a shrine space with orange cloth covering the floor and altar. On the left, a man in a white turban and white kurta-dhoti kneels and holds his hand near the head of a bare-chested seated man in white dhoti, a rudraksha mala and a pendant, who sits with palms pressed together. Scattered red rose petals surround them, with brass bowls of petals, a plate of bananas and fruit, and small brass lamps and vessels nearby. To the right, a deity murti is adorned with white jasmine garlands and red roses, with a tall gold-trimmed orange backdrop behind. The scene reads as a ritual blessing during a puja.2022-10-05 +1 copies