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Overhead photo of a puja offering arranged on a red-brown tiled floor. Silver and steel trays hold sliced and whole fruit including apples, bananas, limes and a green leaf, pink and white rose petals, mixed flower garlands, pale cone-shaped sweets in a bowl, a small pot of kumkum and a steel dish of yellow and white powders. A brass plate with a tray of savoury coiled snacks sits nearby, with a small steel lota and bowl. Wrapped packets and a boxed item sit at the edges. No people are visible.

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October 23 20062006-10-23October 23 20062006-10-23October 23 20062006-10-23Top-down photograph of offerings laid on a reddish wooden floor during a puja. On the left, a silver-rimmed tray holds two red apples and pale yellow-green fruit beside cut coconut halves. Center, a second tray holds banana fruit, more coconut halves, and a yellow paper wrapping with red printed text. On the right, a tray of loose pink and red flowers sits beside a yellow and white flower garland, bananas, limes or lemons, and a halved coconut. Scattered petals lie on the floor, and a brass lamp with a lit flame and a bare foot appear at the top edge.2006-10-24Overhead photo of a puja on a red tiled floor. A figure in white dhoti and shirt, seen only from the knees down and by hand, pours liquid from a silver vessel over a deity murti seated on a golden peetha, with a flame burning above. Around the murti are flower garlands, green leaves and pink petals. Surrounding trays hold sliced coconuts, apples, bananas, oranges, sweets, rice, kumkum, a golden plate with a small kalasha, and a silver bowl. The scene shows abhishekam and offerings. No face is visible, so a person cannot be confirmed in this image.2006-10-23October 25 20062006-10-25October 23 20062006-10-23A close still life of ritual offerings on a table. Silver bowls and a silver ladle hold yellow and pink flower petals and a white powder. A large silver bowl with a swan-shaped handle sits beside a bowl of fresh fruit: green and red apples, limes and bananas. A yellow marigold garland hangs above, with a small dish of turmeric powder and loose rudraksha beads nearby. No people are visible.2011-11-10A photograph of a ritual offering spread laid out on a striped multicolour cloth on the floor, with no people visible. Trays and plates hold bananas in bunches, limes and other fruit, a mound of white rice, a heap of yellow turmeric powder, red kumkum powder, dried dates, white and yellow flower garlands, and loose red and yellow flowers, with a small brass vessel at the left edge. A folded orange and green cloth and a purple cloth sit at the upper right. This is an arrangement of puja offerings.2020-03-26December 30 20062006-12-30Overhead photo of a temple puja on a polished reddish-brown wooden floor. A silver tray holds bananas, a coconut half, flower petals, a small plastic-wrapped item and a bowl of white offering. To the right, a bronze deity murti is draped in pink and red garlands and white flower strands, with glass jars of sweets wrapped in pink ribbon placed around it. Bare feet and white-clad legs of attendants are visible at the top edge, and a hand gestures at right. No face is visible.2006-10-23October 23 20082008-10-23