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A photograph of an outdoor bhoomi pooja ground-breaking ritual under a striped purple and white canopy with leaf-garland decorations. A man in saffron-orange robes and an orange turban, wearing white jasmine and marigold garlands, pours water from a steel pot into a square pit lined with wooden planks, over a sandy floor decorated with coloured floral rangoli. Around him, devotees in white dhotis and shirts crowd close, including an older bearded man with white garlands and a red forehead mark on the left, and a bespectacled man on the right wearing a rudraksha-type bead necklace. A tray of offerings and fruit sits in the background.

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Outdoor ceremony under a red-and-patterned tent canopy with a green mat underfoot. A man in an orange turban, orange robe and a white-and-multicolour flower garland stands centre, gesturing with his hand toward a leafy sapling. A woman in a gold sari with flowers in her hair bends low at the base of the sapling, and a man in white shirt and dhoti stoops to its right. Behind them, men in white kurta and dhoti and young men in white with orange shawls stand near a golden trident-tipped staff and a tray of flowers. Crowd members in white and striped shirts fill the background beneath red drapery.2007-02-06May 19 20082008-05-19June 19 20142014-06-19 +2 copiesOutdoor tented gathering with white and pink draped fabric overhead. A long-haired man with a beard, wearing a red sleeveless top and a garland of white and pink flowers, smiles while holding an orange cloth. Nearby, a woman in white with an orange shawl stands beside a bowed woman in white, and a man in white bends low before him. Onlookers in blue and red stand behind, and a tray of pink and orange flowers lies in the foreground. The appearance of the central figure in red is consistent with the page's reference to a person, but the match is not strong enough to confirm identity.2009-07-072004 - First Sannyas Deeksha At AdiKailaasa2004-07-02A seated man in an orange saffron robe and orange turban, wearing a long rudraksha mala and a gold-toned pendant chain, sits cross-legged on a mat under trees in an outdoor ritual. He holds his hands together in front of him, eyes lowered, while a copper-topped Shiva lingam wrapped in orange cloth and garlanded with white flowers sits before him. Behind him, a tray holds bananas, a bell, a small silver vessel, lit oil lamps and a plate of white flowers, and a flower-decorated lingam-like object stands on a tray at the right. Around them, about a dozen seated devotees in white and blue clothes, including a woman in a red sari and a woman in a light grey sari, watch the puja.A bearded man with long hair stands barefoot on a stone-paved courtyard in a dappled shade of a large banyan tree, hands pressed together in añjali mudra with head bowed. He wears a rust-brown silk garment and a brown rudraksha-style bead necklace, with long orange-red and white flower garlands draped over his shoulders. Behind him, several men in saffron-orange robes stand with hands folded in prayer, and red-painted low walls and a chain-link fence sit at the edge of the frame.2017-01-01February 04 20172017-02-04 +1 copiesDecember 19 20162016-12-19April 04 20082008-04-04A photograph of a single person in an outdoor ashram setting standing barefoot beside a large banyan tree whose trunk and aerial roots are draped with white jasmine garlands and pink flower strands. The person wears an orange-saffron turban, an orange sleeveless robe and a white and red flower garland around the neck, and leans forward with one hand resting on the trunk, head bowed. Scattered flower petals lie on the red earth around the tree, and a white-painted curved stone border with white kolam designs and striped mats sit nearby. Cues for an appearance-based candidate are limited to the orange turban and saffron robe, so identity remains uncertain; the person is described by role as a devotee at the tree.2008-07-17Outdoor photograph of a crowd on a village road in front of simple tiled-roof houses and a parked silver van. A man in an orange-saffron turban and saffron sannyasi robes, wearing a long white and pink flower garland and a rudraksha mala, stands at the centre with head slightly bowed while a woman in a teal sari kneels or bends before him with flowers and a lit lamp. Around him men in white shirts and dhotis and saffron-clad devotees hold marigold and rose petals, and a young boy in a white shirt leans in. A decorated yellow-and-red ceremonial umbrella and a tall wooden pole appear at the upper left. Several people line the background, and an overlaid credit line reads Nithyananda Paramashivam.2008-11-24