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Indoor bhandara feast in a pink-walled hall with marble floor and balloons and paper streamers hanging from the ceiling. Seated in a row on the floor at low wooden tables are saffron-robed sannyasis, several with orange turbans and one with a white beard. A standing saffron-robed sadhu in an orange turban and black boots stands at right facing the seated group, while a woman in a pink-and-white striped sari with a red headscarf approaches. A large red banner on the wall reads in Hindi with the name Swami Atmanand Puri Ji Maharaj. Steel plates and cups are set out before the seated monks, and currency notes lie on one table. Ordinary people are present in the room; no candidate for a person is clearly identifiable by appearance.

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March 13 20142014-03-13A long row of seated sadhus in saffron-orange robes, many wearing marigold garlands, sit on the floor of a pink-walled hall during a bhandara. Elderly devotees in white clothes and white head coverings, one in a blue shawl, bend forward to offer lamps and small plates of food on wooden stools. A large red banner with white and gold Hindi lettering hangs on the left, and colourful balloons and garlands decorate the ceiling fans overhead. A bearded man in a red shirt stands at the back right, watching the scene.2014-03-13March 13 20142014-03-13 +1 copiesPhotograph of a bhandara meal gathering in a pink-walled hall with a marble floor. A red banner lettered in Hindi and English announces Mahamandaleshwar Swami Atmanand Puri Ji Maharaj. Saffron-robed sadhus sit cross-legged on the floor behind low wooden tables set with metal thalis and water bottles. A standing sadhu in an orange turban and robe gestures while speaking, and a man in dark striped clothing stands near the left. A seated figure in the centre holds a microphone; in the background are framed religious prints and a silver-framed photo on a side table. Seated devotees in the foreground, including a woman in a yellow top and another in pink, face the front. Several people are visible in total.2014-03-13 +1 copiesMarch 13 20142014-03-13 +1 copiesMarch 13 20142014-03-13 +1 copiesA photograph of a seated bhandara gathering in a pink-walled hall decorated with pastel balloons and streamers. Rows of people sit on a wooden floor before leaf plates and small cups. Several sannyasis in saffron-orange robes sit and stand, a woman in red and gold sits near the front, and a man in a white shirt sits in the foreground. A standing figure in orange robes holds a garland near the centre, and a man in white bends over a pot to the right. A red banner with white and Hindi script hangs on the left wall beside framed deity pictures. Above, a framed portrait labelled "Paramahamsa Nithyananda" hangs among other religious images. Roughly two dozen people are visible.2014-03-13A photograph of a bhandara feast in a pink-walled hall decorated with pink, green and yellow balloons and ceiling fans. Dozens of people in saffron and orange robes sit cross-legged on the floor in long rows, many holding metal plates of food, while men in white kurtas walk among them serving. A red banner with white and yellow Hindi text hangs on the left wall, and framed pictures and deity images hang on the walls. Several people in white caps and plain white clothing sit or stand near the banner, and a few women in pink and beige head coverings sit in the front rows. a person is not clearly visible in this scene.2014-03-13 +1 copiesA seated group of saffron-robed sadhus and sannyasis sits on a red carpet and white floor inside a pink-walled hall during a bandhara gathering. On the far left a man with long dark hair, a full beard and a saffron shawl sits with a hand near his knee, and a gold necklace is visible at his chest; several bottles of water sit on the floor. Other seated monks wear orange and ochre robes, one in white headwear stands in the background, and a red banner with Hindi lettering hangs on the wall behind them.2014-03-13A seated row of saffron-robed sadhus and monks sits cross-legged on a wooden floor along a pink wall in an ashram hall, each behind a low wooden table holding papers, bottles of water and banana-leaf-style offerings. A red banner with white and gold text hangs on the left, and a framed painting of a deity hangs at the top right. Several men in orange turbans and robes stand at the right, and on the right foreground a man in a white kurta and maroon vest bends forward in respectful greeting. The seated figures include a bearded elder with a shaved head and a younger man with long dark hair and a rudraksha mala. a person is not clearly identifiable by appearance here, so no specific candidate is named.2014-03-13A large seated bhandara meal in a pink-walled hall with marble floor, where rows of saffron-robed sadhus and devotees sit on low wooden tables and mats eating from leaf plates. In the foreground a bearded sadhu in orange robes with a red shawl sits at the left, and a standing monk in orange robes serves at the center. A red banner with Hindi text hangs on the wall above, and a framed deity painting and colourful balloons decorate the room.2014-03-13 +1 copiesA photograph of a seated meal gathering (bhandara) in a pink-walled hall. A man in a teal shirt, dark vest and khaki trousers stands with palms pressed together in namaste while holding folded money, beside a woman in a red-and-black patterned headscarf and polka-dot top who smiles. A seated woman on the right wears a red-and-gold ceremonial sari, a heavy gold necklace and gold bangles and smiles with raised hands before a steel thali plate and water bottles. Several saffron-robed sadhus sit on mats along the wall behind leaf-plate meal setups. A red banner above reads the name of an ashram and a list of branch locations.2014-03-13